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

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

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

In February 1945, Salvador Guercia's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Sandoval (APA-194)] transported Marines to Saipan [...

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

While Ralph Morse was in the hospital recovering from malaria, he was told he would not be going back to the Pacific [...

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

Charles T. Edwards was returning to his station from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] when he had...

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

Alfred Rodrigues reported aboard the Washington [Annotator's Note: USS Washington (BB-56)] as a five inch [Annotator's...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

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

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