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William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...

Patrick Zilliacus worked in a factory near Washington, D.C. for Engineering and Research Corporation [Annotator's Note...

Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...

At 19 years of age, Murphy Burke witnessed the fight at Iwo Jima. He described the day as breaking grungy, with low...

Forrest Villarrubia was in combat with General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] on Leyte...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

In Providence, Rhode Island, Edward Driscoll joined the newly formed Torpedo Squadron 13 [Annotator's Note: Torpedo...

The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...

They ended up at Camp Custer. DeMers had been getting promoted this entire time. He made 1st Sergeant by 1940. They...

As the 6th Marines [Annotator's Note: 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] were going in [Annotator's Note: on...

Around the time Paul Dietzel flew his first mission, General Curtis LeMay had gone to the Pacific to take over the 20th...

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