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Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40 mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Giles Bacon remembers that the Japanese aircraft were close enough to shoot at, which he did. He had no idea if he hit...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. realized that there were no officers to protect the Wake Island Marines who were prisoners of...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Thomas Lusco Sr. remembers that at night, there were dogfights between the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51...

Floyd James Reissig sailed around Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] towards Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note...

Merrill's roommate was Olie Hansen.After a raid the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CV-6...

Therese Wadsworth Warne's [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2]...

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