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While on occupation duty, Louis R. Lepore first stayed on the water front in Sasebo [Annotator's Note: Sasebo, Japan]....

James Smith recalled that the Japanese attacked at around nine that night and things were going bad. A number of...

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

The main difference between a jailer, which Alfred Dearman was, and a guard, is that the jailer is in the cellblock...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...

The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

The night John Elliott arrived at the base in India, Tokyo Rose [Annotator's Note: nickname given by Allied servicemen...

Edward Riedl was born in November 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] and grew up there. He...

Barbara Butler wrote home frequently. She tried to explain to her family what she was going through and to reassure...

James Bollich was on one of the first ships to take prisoners from the Philippines. The Japanese put 2,000 men into a...

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