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Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

Leo Denault was discharged on 10 March 1946. He came back on a troop carrier ship. It took seven days. It was awful. He...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

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

Kenneth A. Lafleur talks about his missions in the Philippines. His unit [Annotator's Note: 408th Bombardment Squadron...

Robert Philips landed across Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] the first week in August [Annotator's...

Richard O'Hara took a train with eight others to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They did not know...

The VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] had their headquarters in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans...

Howard Hart saw only one Red Cross package in the Los Banos camp during the one and a half years he spent there. In...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

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