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Donelson Houseman was confident in his training. What worried him was that he did not know where he was. He was taken...

The last mission Maynard David flew was on 30 August [Annotator's Note: 30 August 1945]. It was an air-sea rescue...

Wesley Fronk would have liked to have stayed in the service longer. When he got stationed in Shanghai [Annotator's Note...

When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

Alvin Barnes was born December in 1925 in Minden, Nebraska. His family moved from the small Midwestern town and bought...

Marie Rankart was at a dress shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey buying a dress when she heard the news that the war was over...

At the conclusion of World War 2, Richard R. Ruess had 85 points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based on...

Charles Kitowski and the other pilots [Annotator's Note: in the 64th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 12th Air...

Jake Ussery was aboard the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] following the American recapture of the...

Mahlen Arledge experienced his first combat on Angaur. He had no idea what to expect in combat. The first night on the...

As Lee O. McKinnon was on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Calvert (APA-32)] that had reached North Africa for an...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture. A World War 1 veteran...

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