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Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

During one of his first combat missions, one of the gunners on David Lehigh's plane panicked. He found out a few...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

[Annotator’s Note: Talking and other noises are audible in the background through this segment.] Leander Bubrig’s most...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt's most memorable experience was 7 April [Annotator's Note: 7 April 1945, during Battle of Okinawa...

When Sterling Mace experienced a mortar barrage and machine gun fire on Okinawa, he noticed an unoccupied jeep. He took...

Life on the ship was boring. Raymond A. Reed was on 15 different ships in 35 different countries. He was a lucky Seabee...

Lois Meyer's commanding officer in Arlington, Virginia was a member of the original few [Annotator's Note: the first...

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

Louis John Walter sailed on the James Fallen [Annotator's Note: unable to verify ship name]. A couple of Walter's...

John Snyder's most memorable invasion of World War 2 was the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]....

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

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