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Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

The Chandler [Annotator's Note: USS Chandle (DD-206)] had 4 stacks and had torpedo tubes and 4 inch guns. Baptiste...

When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

Before going to Guam, Robert Powers and the four Marine Raider battalions were put into one regular unit, the 4th...

James Connelly got burned. They ran short of gasoline for flamethrowers. A small boat came back to get more. The LCM [...

Glenn Frazier started the Bataan Death March with the other Allied POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] late in...

Richard Miralles left the squadron and went aboard the ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)] as a radioman...

John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

William Lutz remembers the battles on Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines] were not bad. One man got out of...

At the first prisoner of war camp, Pearson Riddle had to work hauling earth and material in a giant cart. Riddle did...

Donald Draxler was mad at the Japanese for the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Robert Masters' most memorable experience of World War 2 was the time Winston Churchill [Annotator's Note: Sir Winston...

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