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Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a flying instructor with the US Army Air Forces] was sent to school to...

Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was transferred to Kunming [Annotator's Note: Kunming, China] followed by an assignment to the...

Cortland Claus was born in May 1925 in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. He spent his first 10 years going through grade four...

Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...

Samuel Spector was always hungry in the jungle with Detachment 101. The food that was airdropped would not last long so...

Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

One of Crump’s friends was on watch on a ship that was torpedoed. Crump’s convoy had about 35 percent casualties. The...

Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

Cleveland Peterson made the trip home aboard a Liberty ship. He had flown to Calcutta first, then rode a British train...

Harold Daniel Snyder's most memorable experience was the closest he came to being knocked off [Annotator's Note: as a...

Towards the end of the war, they [Annotator's Note: the British officers] were telling them [Annotator's Note: Masaji...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

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