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After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...

Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was an all-American boy and he wanted to fight for his country. He enlisted and his parents were...

Harold Ronson went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to...

Henry Ratcliff joined the Army Air Forces and went many places including California where it rained a lot. Eating in...

Ray Felts went to Idaho for basic training, and hoped he would get to work on a submarine, but at six-foot-four his...

George Colburn shipped out on the USS Rochambeau (AP-63), which was the same ship that Jack Kennedy [Annotator’s Note:...

Since Alfred Dearman would be in the cellblock with the prisoners [Annotator's Note: at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan],...

Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that the USS PGM-1 had patrol duty around the Philippines. He recalled the kamikaze attacks...

Lyle Mitchell was born in September 1918 in New York. He had a sister and a brother. His sister is two years younger...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

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