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Vaughn Whitworth did not decide to fight in World War 2, he was inducted. He felt it was his duty to go along. He did...

Clayton Fisher planned to join the Army Air Corps until a friend of his joined the Navy as an aviator. Fisher applied...

Charles Brooks would have breakfast before dawn onboard the ship. He would then look to see his assignment for the day...

Jack Werner was the highest ranking non-commissioned officer of his company [Annotator's Note: H...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew were supposed to go to Australia on R...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner adopted a boy in California and a girl in Michigan. He has a grandson in Arizona and a...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

On 11 July 1944, George Colburn and two others went into the Federal building in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston,...

Leo William Schmittgens waited sometime before his ship had arrived for them to leave Okinawa. He helped load the ship...

Edgar Marion Cole was born in Dallas, Texas in 1925. His parents were poor and he had to help the family financially...

Sidney Philips was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up on Georgia Avenue in midtown. Eugene [Annotators Note...

When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...

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