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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...

Martin Jacobson arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii soon after the Marshall Islands Campaign in 1944. He underwent more...

Robert Riddle went to San Pedro, California for boot camp. He was excited to see the ocean for the first time, and...

Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...

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

When James Wilson left Australia, they [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

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

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

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

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