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Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

Ittsei Nakagawa never wanted to talk about it [Annotator's Note: surviving the atomic bomb detonation over Hiroshima,...

The prisoners had their own doctors they had to rely on. They had a Japanese doctor assigned to them but he was not 1...

Maynard David grew up on a farm west of Topeka, Kansas. He went to high school in Silver Lake, Kansas and graduated in...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roy Boreen was stationed at the Section Base until 1943. After that, he was sent to...

By May 1944, David R. Saunders had joined the Army and was sent to Camp Beauregard [Annotator's Note: in Pineville,...

Jack D. Samuelson is a World War Two veteran. He was interviewed at 88 years of age in a senior citizens’ home. He met...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division of...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

Leo Denault liked Westover Field [Annotator’s Note: Westover Field, Massachusetts] the best. He liked Tokyo [Annotator’...

John Stiles boarded the USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145). It was a troop ship and it was an interesting experience....

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