Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Freligh, Robert The last months of the war
[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...
Smith, Jacques The Leyte Campaign
Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...
Crosby, Thomas The Liberation of the Santo Tomas Internment Camp
On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...
Jensen, Mervin The Long Trip Home
Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...
Bale, Edward The M4 Sherman Tank
Edward Bale operated the M4 Medium Tank [Annotator's Note: also known as the Sherman] during World War 2 except when he...
Warne, Therese The MacArthur Family
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...
Ussery, Jake The Mariana Islands and Iwo Jima
Jake Ussery was aboard the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] following the American recapture of the...
Thomason, David The Mariana Islands and the Battle of Iwo Jima
[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733).] They went...
Burke, Murphy The Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands and the Mission After Darkness
The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...
Guidone, Frank The Matanikau
[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]Guidone...
West, Gerald L. The Matanikau and Leaving Guadalcanal
Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...
Wayne, William The Men at Iwo Jima
William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...
White, Dee The Merchant Marine
Dee Wayne White recalled when VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] was announced and was...
Ramage, James D. "Jig Dog" The Mission After Darkness
One of the guys that James Ramage was flying with looked back at one of the burning Japanese carriers and said, "Look...
Little, Keith The Navajo Code
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...
Tso, Samuel The Navajo Code
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Little, Keith The Navajo Code on the Battlefield
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Tso, Samuel The Navajo Code on the Battlefield
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Reed, Robert The Pacific
Robert Frederick Reed's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Bombing Squadron 612 (VMB-612)] did training dropping...
Grahlfs, F. The Pacific
Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...
Stevens, Phineas The Pacific and Captain Scruggs
[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...
Baker, Sterling The Pacific and Discharge
Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...
Pettis, Merle The Pacific and Returning Home
After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was sent to Oregon. They did not get...
Oney, James The Pacific to Home
On Treasury Island [Annotator's Note: Stirling Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands], James Oney was in charge of...
Snyder, John The Pacific War
After leaving Italy, John Snyder was transported to another ship in the Pacific because they needed more corpsman out...
Donaldson, Buck The Panama Canal
Buck Donaldson went to Portland to get ready to go to Manila, the Philippines. Before they got there, the Japanese...
Campbell, Clifford The Philippines
Clifford Campbell did not go ashore on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippine Islands] until the island was secure...
Jennings, Edward The Philippines
Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...
Sartori, Paul The Philippines
Paul Sartori Jr. went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] and then went...
Jackson, James The Philippines
James Thomas Jackson [Annotator's Note: arrived in the Philippines after the Japanese surrendered in August 1945,...
Frazier, Glenn The Philippines
Glenn Frazier sailed the Pacific on the USS Cleveland troopship [Annotator's Note: the passenger liner SS President...
Lopez, Lionel The Philippines
Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Leyte, 17 October to 26 December...
Sparacino, Paul The Philippines
The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...
Jones, Harold The Philippines and Japanese Surrender
Harold Jones and his unit [Annotator's Note: 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] went to Lipa [...
Ratcliff, Henry The Philippines and War's End
Henry Ratcliff reached Mindoro [Annotator's Note: Mindoro Philippines, as a member of the 860th Aviation Engineer...

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