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Grant Patton remembers the convoy would not stop. One ship might stop to pick up survivors. While he was flying, they...

Basilone [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone] and his guys went ashore in the third wave. William...

Robert Villars noted that the crews on some of the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

Gene M. Cushman was born in 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up with an older brother. His father, a career...

Harold Wellington was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in September 1924. He had one older brother and one...

Grant Patton remembers they had to use five-gallon cans to gas the airplanes up. His plane had depth charges [Annotator...

To William Lansford, all campaigns had goofy things happen. The first time he went out by himself he had been warned of...

Robert Villars and his merchant ship pulled into the neutral port of Lourenço Marques. [Annotator's Note: Lourenço...

In 1942, Gene M. Cushman was admitted to the aviation cadet program and attended his pre-flight training in San Antonio...

Harold Wellington remembers Pearl Harbor was attacked on a Sunday [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Grant Patton does not think the war changed him. He was doing the same thing he was at home. The war changed the...

Robert Villars sailed through the Straits of Magellan after leaving Montevideo, Uruguay. He saw the local inhabitants...

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