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Being in a hole with Jimmy Grimes when he got shot through the head, and Harrington got his belly split open stands out...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Joe Clapper's unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] landed on...

Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

Charles Womack saw many civilians on Okinawa. The civilians would bow as the Marines passed by them. Womack's unit [...

Robert Leroy Shirkey would lead about five men when he was on a mission with the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese, was forced to work in the Mitsubishi mine number 11 [Annotator’s Note: in...

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

Michael Maziarczyk landed in Australia in 1943 after 28 days on the boat. They left from San Francisco [Annotator's...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Ray Fitzgerald started his combat flights [Annotator's Note: as a flight engineer aboard a Consolidated B-24 Liberator...

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