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Peter Newberg saw a blonde man close to him and it turned out to be his friend. He was an electrician 3rd Class on the...

Going into the Pacific took 19 days, zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver], in a three-ship...

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

Charles Chartier returned to the United States around Christmas of 1946. The trip home was a lot shorter than the trip...

When the Japanese planned invasions on American, English or Filipino soil, they had to come up with a new code...

Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

On the 8th [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1942, the second day of the Battle of Coral Sea], Norman Sterrie knew it was going...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

William Earl Gast remembers the first time he changed into new clothes. He was staying in a house and slept in the...

Walter Atwood was born Lebanon, Kansas in February 1922. He grew up on a farm. He had to milk cows before and after...

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