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Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...

Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

Vejtasa could see the Lexington on fire but still recovering planes. The Yorktown was also burning but recovering...

The B-29s carrying the second atomic bomb were overhead circling Yawata. The crew of the B-29 carrying the bomb was...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

Richard O'Kane gave William Leibold a nice 35mm camera. O’Kane snuck it in the trunk of Leibold's car one day during a...

In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Ricardo R. Rondinelli was sent to Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands and assigned to the 47th Bombardment Squadron,...

Harlan Twible may have had nightmares after the war but it was nothing he could not handle. He left active duty the...

As time went by, Thomas Crosby and his family had to assimilate to the changes going on in the internment camp [...

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