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Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees were very leery of their Japanese captors. They were not all bad...

Paris Tognoli came into Empress Augusta Bay [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Papau New Guinea, 28 December 1943] and...

Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

James Goodrich was taken from Iwo Jima to a hospital on Guam. He was on Guam for about 12 or 13 days before being...

Glenn Frazier heard Tokyo Rose broadcast to the defenders of the Philippines that no reinforcements were on the way. [...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Following his liberation [Annotator's Note: from a Japanese prisoner of war camp], Howard Robert Charles arrived by air...

During his time in the Samar Islands, the Philippines, William Schrader [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 23rd...

While stationed on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] Anna McCalla Noren was thrilled when she...

James Roland Westbrook enlisted in the Marine Corps in March 1943. He wanted to be a Marine even though his father, who...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]When they...

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