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All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

Socrates Dendrinelis remembers the kamikazes [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide bombers] hitting the ships. It made a...

Robert Curl did not realize the importance of the actions that occurred on D-Day [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.] They returned to...

Wallace Edward Spencer, originally Wallace Smigirow, was born in Woodside, New York in October 1925. He has one older...

Paul J. Frisco served aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the ship's entire wartime cruise. The ship was the fourth...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior [Annotator's Note: assigned to the USS President Hayes (APA-20)] was at San Pedro [...

Adolfo V. Celaya went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. The training was difficult...

Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...

Bettylu Dennis was born in April 1923 in Aurora, Indiana. Beginning in fifth grade, the family moved around several...

Emmett Guderian served in the occupation of Japan. He saw the remains of bombed towns. He worked with Japanese on...

Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

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