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Learning of the Japanese surrender was a relief for Don Daniels. He was on a ship off Honolulu [Annotator's Note:...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

William Scott Stroud was born in June 1921 in Huntington, Arkansas but soon moved to Shady Point, Oklahoma where he...

The division [Annotator's Note: 31st Infantry Division] was then transferred to the island of Morotai [Annotator's Note...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

Kenneth Wieland was born in Fisher, Minnesota September 1926. He grew up there. [Annotator's Note: Someone enters the...

Arthur McHardy went by train from Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan] to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San...

Claude Shannahan joined the Raiders because he wasn't tall enough to be a paratrooper and because he liked the name. He...

Paul J. Frisco and his fellow crewmen were not intimidated by the threat of kamikazes because of their supreme...

Jones believes that the raid was important and worth the risk and cost. After the raid the men just kept on going.Jones...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

Ellis Whaley's training had been in engineering. He was given a transit and laid out roads and a cemetery. He had some...

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