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Embarking on their journey to the Pacific, Richard Bennett's squadron [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 31...

Russell Gackenbach served in the Air Force as a navigator on B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

Vejtasa doesn't know of anyone being lost during the attack. The farther away they got from the scene, the worse the...

When the flag went up on Mt. Suribachi [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, February 1945], Hershel Williams was too busy in...

There were no jobs when Charles Bruce got out of the service. He got married right away. He met a high school girl and...

Harold DeForest was on Leyte on his way back to the 37th Infantry Division when the atomic bomb was dropped and the war...

Harold Bergbower was born in Newton, Illinois in 1920. He had four brothers and two sisters. He was the fifth born of...

Clifford Albert Hahn was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when he heard about the dropping of the atomic...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Edwin Lamm was assigned to the Air Transport Command at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base [Annotator's Note: now Travis...

Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...

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