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Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Dupuy recalls a certain sense of invincibility that stayed with him. He knew death was around every corner but he kept...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. and other men were crammed into a ship heading to Japan [Annotator's Note: as a Japanese...

Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...

Abraham Rosenzweig joined the US Coast Guard in October [Annotator’s Note: of 1942] and left in January 1943. His...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. says the reason for a museum [Annotator's Note: such as The National WWII Museum in New Orleans...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

Kenneth E. Stevens heard the war was over when they [Annotator's Note: Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment,...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

Grant Ichikawa helped coerce a large number of Japanese soldiers to surrender in the jungles of the Philippines. The...

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