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After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Carroll Harris was counting inventory in the grocery store he worked at when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor...

[Annotator's Note: Richard R. Ruess served as a navigator in the 1st Mapping Group.] He received orders [Annotator's...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...

Samuel Goss had no idea that he would become a boat officer. Before he graduated as an ensign [Annotator's Note: lowest...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] moved up to the next island because there...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

The most memorable situation for Al Currier was being trapped on a mountain with no one knowing where they were [...

Windom Joseph Burton was aboard the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] when it was hit by enemy...

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