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They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS Bayfield, near Okinawa] for about twelve days...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

After boot camp, Robert Powers joined a rifle company at Camp Elliot, then volunteered for a Marine Raider unit. He...

When James Bollich was sent to Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], he was still a mechanic, but he...

Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] began...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. was born in December 1923 in Hoxie, Arkansas. His mother was a telephone operator and his...

Albert Simon was at Woodpecker Ridge in Luzon [Annotator’s Note: Luzon, the Philippines]. They landed on Leyte Island [...

The most significant thing to occur during the Battle of Midway that allowed for American victory is up for debate....

Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan shipped out of San Diego, California to New Caledonia aboard the USS...

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