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Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

Isaac Edward landed in Florence, Italy with the 92nd Infantry Division. There were combat units next to them that hit a...

Paul Ignatius’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting through it, surviving and coming out to lead a...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was deployed to the Pacific Theater as an aviation metalsmith with Aircraft Repair Unit 145 (ARU...

John Lawler was born in September 1921 in Baltimore [Annotator's Note: Baltimore, Maryland] with three brothers and...

Frank L. Lombardo was born in January 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended a boarding school in Covington,...

Michael Wilford Boos remembered how awful the trip across the Atlantic Ocean was on the troop transport. The convoy...

Ralph Griffith was moved on a hospital ship from Manchuria to Okinawa and there he ran into friends he knew before the...

Edwin McGhee saw British and Russian POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] in the first camp he was held in. The...

Joseph Massey was drafted just after leaving high school at age 18. He entered service on 15 November 1945 [Annotator's...

John Morrow recalls MEs, Maximum Effort missions [Annotator's Note: for a maximum effort mission, every bombardment...

Frank H. O'Leary and his platoon set up on the Tenaru River [Annotator's Notes: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. On the...

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