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While on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman saw two Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft Warning, 5th Interceptor Command,...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Ray Anthony had contacts with 20th Century Fox because he had made movies there with “Sun Valley Serenade” [Annotator’s...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Lazarick heard President Roosevelt's speech [Annotator's Note: Roosevelt's speech to Congress which he gave on 8...

Fulton Taylor used the GI Bill to help pay his tuition for college. He graduated from Louisiana State University in...

William Scott Stroud was put into an air crew in Utah [Annotator's Note: Wendover Field, later Wendover Air Force Base...

Donald Stratton is from Red Cloud, Nebraska. His family was farmers early on in their lives. Stratton had one sister...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

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