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Lester Shapiro was born in October 1921 in Rochester, New York. He went as a walk-on for a scholarship at the...

George C. Ward remained in Burma after the war [Annotator’s Note: he was deployed to the China-Burma-India Theater in...

Before Elmo Espree got on the ship for deployment overseas, his group of black soldiers was lined up first on the...

In discussing the Battle of Mogaung, Burma [Annotator's Note: now Mogaung, Myanmar], Edward Denzler noted that most of...

Roy H. Matsumoto found the high elevation of the Burma jungle and the winter weather resulted in temperatures cold at...

Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

Albert Sieck was assigned as a pilot with the 22nd Bombardment Squadron, 341st Bombardment Group, 10th Air Force in...

Elmo Espree was impressed with the huge size of the first camp he trained at. Customarily, the service facilities are...

The impression Edward Denzler had of the Japanese soldiers he saw in Burma was that they were mostly young kids. Their...

A regular day for Gabriel Spinelli started early, and was usually spent driving the lines to check wires and repeater...

Roy H. Matsumoto was shown contempt by one of the translators in his unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 5307th...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

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