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James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

Richard O'Kane gave William Leibold a nice 35mm camera. O’Kane snuck it in the trunk of Leibold's car one day during a...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

William Hall settled down after the war with the Marines but grew angry with the Marine Corps and quit. He did not like...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Chris Carawan was born in 1926 in Washington, North Carolina into a family of seagoing people. His father was a sea...

John Caudle became very close friends with his crew. It was a lot like family. He went to Clovis, New Mexico and was...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] after the battle [Annotator's Note: [Annotator’s Note:...

Norman Sterrie was spotted over the forward elevator just as an explosion below lifted the elevator and him in his TBD...

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