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Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: as a member of the salvage crew on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942] witnessed the...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

They [Annotator’s Note: Charles Borders and his fellow pilots in the 82nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st...

Anthony Costa was sent to Osaka aboard a ship to work on the docks there. He was in a transport ship hold where he did...

Joseph LaNier joined the United States Navy in February 1944. African-Americans prior to 1942 were not allowed to join...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

Harold Hauberg was born and raised in Nebraska City, Nebraska in July 1918. He entered the service in 1938, when the...

Edgar Harrell was born in October 1924 in Cadiz, Kentucky. He was 18 when he joined the United States Marine Corps in...

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