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When the war ended, Marvin Hill was still serving in the Pacific, and was sent first to Darian, Manchuria to assist in...

Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...

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

Ben Steele joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He was raised on a cattle ranch north of Billings [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Joseph Fox has no problem with the Japanese today. His wife's brother married a Japanese woman. Her parents...

At Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk, Virginia], James W. Metcalf was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the...

Mark John Maynard served on USS Sturgeon (SS-187), USS Marlin (SS-204), and USS Cobbler (SS-344) during World War Two....

Elroy Gambino's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he won over 5,000 dollars playing blackjack [...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

In Hawaii, Don Daniels was at Camp Tarawa. Before getting there, he was loading ships for Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo...

Richard Greer thought very highly of the navy medical personnel who worked with them. The pharmacist’s mates were...

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