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Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

Jack Leaming was shipped to the Ofuna prison camp after Yokohama. Baths were in individual tubs with water heaters. The...

Vejtasa doesn't know of anyone being lost during the attack. The farther away they got from the scene, the worse the...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

James Oney was scared when bombs were falling [Annotator's Note: during air raids on Stirling Island, Treasury Islands...

John DuBose had eight months of back pay when he departed the SS Frenchtown. He was concerned that he would be robbed...

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

Emmanuel Nazarro Damonte trained as a replacement. His division was already overseas. When he shipped over, he landed...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was known as "Chub" through high school. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in March 1926. His...

It is important to study World War 2. Being a nurse in the Army is a nice thing to do for Emiline Ann Bourgeois [...

Joseph Vater believes Manchuria [Annotator's Note: Manchuria, China] was the coldest place on Earth. He was given a...

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