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James Weller picked the Army for enlistment because his father had served in World War I in a submarine. The submarine...

Deen was supposed to follow Bill Thompson [Annotators Note: during the invasion of Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. He was...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

[Annotator's Note: Gabriel Kinney served in the Army as a BAR man and fought with the 25th Infantry Division on...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...

Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

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