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When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

On 7 December 1941, Ray Emory stayed on his gun all day and all night, without relief. After he saw the USS Oklahoma (...

Alexander Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero [Annotators Note:...

Gerry Jones was painting radio towers in California when he heard the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Allen Horton returned to his memory of life on the USS Nevada (BB-36). He said the Nevada had been at Pearl Harbor, and...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

After securing Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], Haney Ambrose [Annotator's Note: with...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

While Carl Rieman was off of Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], the USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)...

Alfred Dearman had never seen a tv [Annotator's Note: television] and kept reading about them. Another of his buddy and...

Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...

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