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On one occasion, Edwin Knight removed a wounded man downhill by following a telephone wire. The wire split and changed...

Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

William Beaman was 18 years old when he participated in his first submarine patrol in the Pacific, and he said he didn'...

Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

Samuel Malta remembers funny occasions during the war but he also remembers being frightened by the combat. When faced...

Gil Gertner served in the 71st Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO) [Annotator’s Note: specialized units which...

John Wicklund says the most effective weapon the infantry used was the Browning Automatic Rifle [Annotator's Note: BAR...

Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different. Their...

They [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division] went into Mindanao [...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

Louise Settles worked in personnel, mostly making assignments. She had never left the United States before the Army....

After over a week in combat on a mountain ridge, William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry...

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