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On their approach, Steve McMurray had heard that the landings on Iwo Jima were not going well. The scenes on the...

In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...

During the Korean War, Harry Baughman was a battalion commander at Fort Polk, Louisiana and searched for a way to keep...

Melvin Linkous and his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] were...

Virginia Wilterdink's most memorable experience of the war was hearing the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl...

The war in Europe had ended, but the war in the Pacific continued. The Allies were supporting Chiang Kai-Shek [...

Jane Biestek was born in January 1925 in the Lamport Hotel Bear Creek, Montana. Her mother was working in the hotel and...

Nelson Constant's company [Annotator's Note: Humble Oil Company] hired 13 colored boys [Annotator's Note: African-...

On the day after V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], John Wicklund and a friend went to...

Joseph P. Fulco did not think the fighting was as bad after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River]. He...

William King was born October 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. It was a nice community that was rather mixed, Italians and...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

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