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Wallace Spencer remembers when they were under attack. All the guns were firing. The crew was sitting there watching...

Lionel Lopez was shot in the back and it came out of his chest. He was taken to a field hospital. The doctor stitched...

Arthur L. Eads was born in Plainville, Kansas [Annotator's Note: in August 1920]. His father was a farmer, but then...

To fill personnel losses resulting from accidents and combat, Richard Baile's crew was broken up. He was made the...

There were four parallel 9,000 foot runways [Annotator's Note: on Tinian]. Paul Dietzel's group was at the far end. One...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell’s boat [Annotator's Note: McConnell served as an officer aboard patrol torpedo boats,...

Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

William Goldsborough served during World War 2 because he had no choice; there was a draft and he had to go "at the...

Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...

Vejtasa made several raids prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea [Annotator's Note: 4-8 May 1942]. After Tulagi, they...

Fred Bronfin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born to immigrant parents immediately after World...

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