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William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...

Dupuy recalls a certain sense of invincibility that stayed with him. He knew death was around every corner but he kept...

Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...

Dr. Peter Paret, military historian and author, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, and his youth and life were shaped...

Allen Ray Sibley was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: on 24 February 1944]. They put him on a Greyhound bus to...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

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

James Thomas Jackson left the service after the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953...

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

Hilar Moore sailed from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

When the Japanese General Homma [Annotator's Note: Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma] brought...

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