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After Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to November 1944,...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

For much of the time, Theodore Pavlovich had nothing to eat but C-rations [Annotator's Note: pre-cooked combat ration]...

William Cart thought the PBY [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat] was a truck, but it was...

Jack Linscott remembers that the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ships] were not...

James Salerno stayed in San Diego for about four or five months. From there they went to Pearl Harbor where they saw...

Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...

Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...

Selwyn Gilmore and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 52nd Bombardment Squadron, 29th Bombardment Group, 314th Bombardment...

Patrick Zilliacus thinks that the variety of odd jobs he held before being drafted helped him in duties on a submarine...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

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