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Photograph. Group of uniformed American servicemen gathered indoors around Christmas cake being cut with samurai sword...

Photograph. Helicopter flying with three escort airplanes above it. Personal caption on reverse: "3 Escorts / 1...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Walker enlisted in the Navy in January 1945.] He went into the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note...

George W. Bachmann, Junior had never left his hometown of Akron [Annotator's Note: Akron, Ohio] before joining the Army...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

Grover Tyner was attending Mercer University [Annotator’s Note: in Macon, Georgia], but was in Forsyth, Georgia eating...

Nobuo Hayashi remembers listening to the radio and hearing how Japan had to attack Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm graduated from high school and turned 18, but had no thoughts about going to college or...

Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...

Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was born in Rochester, New York in May 1927. His father worked with a railroad company, and...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman joined the Navy on 18 August 1937.] Whitman really enjoyed the Navy and had a hard...

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