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Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

Rowland Elliott Ball was born in January 1924 in Yoakum, Texas. His father worked for the railroad and had many years...

James Roland Westbrook served in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines [Annotator's Note: 24th Marine Regiment], 4th...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

William Stewart was sent to Washington state to work on the radar in flying box cars. He made corporal as an auto...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

In civilian life, William J. Twigger had a dear friend who became an officer in the Navy. By stroke of luck, he wrote...

World War 2 made Alfred A. Lingo rethink about how to react to things. He learned to control his emotions in order to...

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