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

Albert Sieck served as a pilot with the 22nd Bombardment Squadron, 14th Air Force, which was the Flying Tigers [...

Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota [Annotator's Note: with Merrill's Marauders, the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)] walked...

Roy H. Matsumoto thought he would like to be taller as a Marauder [Annotator's Note: Matsumoto was a member of the...

Elmo Espree's troop ship sailed from Australia for the Bay of Bengal in India. In India, Espree went through the Ganges...

Lester Shapiro did not know anything about getting a Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the Bronze Star Medal is the fourth...

In October 1944, Harold Ashton deployed to Hawaii. He trained and patrolled there for a month, then flew to Tinian [...

Roy H. Matsumoto was almost killed at the Myitkyina [Annotator's Note: Myitkyina, Burma; now Myitkyina, Myanmar]...

There was an incident involving the Red Cross where Elmo Espree and another black soldier wanted to enter the facility...

Assigned to the 1st Battalion[Annotator's Note: the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) was known as Merrill's...

Harold Ashton felt like the Germans would be better fighters, smarter people, and better trained. He thought the...

Roy H. Matsumoto was within the perimeter of Nhpum Ga [Annotator's Note: Nhpum Ga, Burma; present day Myanmar] for...

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