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From looking at the maps the 2 men discovered that the maps showed the same coastline, but the distances and everything...

O’Neil Ducharme was born in February 1925 near Elizabeth Falls, Maine. His parents immigrated to Maine from Canada in...

Clayton Fisher volunteered to fly an SB2A Brewster [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber] and lead...

George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow was born and grew up in Slidell, Louisiana in 1926. He had five brothers and a sister, he was...

Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

Baptiste had a janitorial service. One of his clients was a doctor who stayed on Corregidor [Annotator's Note:...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Henry Joffray was a member of the Merchant Marine during World War 2. There were 4,000 ships and 260,000 sailors in...

Don Daniels' closest call was an accident. His unit [Annotator's Note: Weapons Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th...

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