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Edward Bruce Jennings spent 20 or 21 months overseas. He was shipped over in 1944 to Finschhafen, New Guinea attached...

James Gulotta did not have any friends to keep up with after the war. They were all either killed or maimed. His unit [...

Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with Harold DeForest talking to the interviewer about his son in law who was...

Richard F. Penwell was supposed to be going back to New Bilibid Prison [Annotator's Note: Old Bilibid and New Bilibid...

Trinidad Ledesma did not go by the name Trinidad while on duty overseas. He found out Trinidad meant gay people and...

Earl Williams was a corporal [Annotator's Note: in the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] when they landed [...

[Annotator's Note: James Billingsley went ashore on Luzon, Philippines, on 31 January 1945.] Billingsley made his way...

Walter Groth remembers the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had a great Air Force. Later...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

Before being shipped out as a replacement to the Pacific, Robert Leroy Shirkey was put on guard duty at the wharves in...

Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...

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