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Bullet holes in machine gun barrels leaning on supply boxes; bullets exited sides when barrels got too hot. '"Machine...

Master Sergeant John Spinks with two other servicemen at Sansapor Airfield (also known as Mar Airfield). '"George Goode...

New Guinean man with decorated face and war club. "New Guinea native. 1944."' New Guinea or Indonesia. Late 1944 to...

Landing crafts on South Pacific island shoreline. '"LST Landing somewhere in New Guinea."' New Guinea. Late 1944 to...

Philip Schweitzer's first time away from home was his trip to basic training. Schweitzer thinks that at the time, the...

After a 21-day voyage across the Pacific, Mort Oman arrived in Buna, New Guinea and was sent to a replacement depot...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

Stanley Fagerstrom was a corporal going into an outfit that was already established in combat. He was attached to...

Burton Johnson had multiple locations where Japanese prisoners were held in New Guinea. There was still hard fighting...

Stanley Fagerstrom left New Guinea on 15 November 1944. The Japanese came across the Pacific in the beginning. They...

Burton Johnson had over 1,500 Japanese prisoners in the massive POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in...

Lionel Lopez took a small ship out of Panama. They were headed north to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco...

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