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Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

Wim de Jonge was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] and worked for the Japanese on the railroad through Thailand...

For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

Byron Herbert Meader's division [Annotator's Note: Meader was a member of Headquarters Company, 271st Infantry Regiment...

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts]...

When William Goldsborough turned 18 in January 1944, he registered for the draft, and was allowed to finish out his...

Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Loren Bennett stayed out at sea for about two or three months after the war was over. He was ready to get out of the...

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