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Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

To conserve what little was left in the battery, Donald Hoff turned off the transmitter, receiver, intercom and IFF or...

Harold Buell is proud to have been a dive bomber pilot. He was recalled from the United States to help a squadron that...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke was born in November 1925 in Wellington, Kansas and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. His father had...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin joined the Army in Columbus, Ohio in November 1942.] Kneflin was sent to Fort Sill,...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Pendleton served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gunner in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

John Nicholas went into the service in September 1943. His half brother George was already in the Navy. Nicholas went...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in the 52nd Defense...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

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