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The division [Annotator's Note: 31st Infantry Division] was then transferred to the island of Morotai [Annotator's Note...

William Lutz went into a cave on Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April...

Robert Lents said that for a year and a half the prisoners did everything from building an underground radio station to...

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

Norman Hatch graduated from high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1938. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher was based on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy...

James Allen was at Midway aboard the Sperry [Annotator's Note: USS Sperry (AS-12)] when the Wahoo [Annotator's Note:...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew does not remember when he was discharged but remembers that he was on Guam [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Bowsher made two separate cemeteries because he had to bury Russians. [Annotator's Note: Bowsher was assigned to...

Benjamin Hagans was sent to the west side of Mindanao [Annotator’s Note: Mindanao, the Philippines]. His job was to...

James Francis McCorriston was happy to be aboard a fighting ship like the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). The first place...

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