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Adjustment to military life was only difficult at first for Ira Milan; for a couple of weeks he was lonesome, as were...

Edwin Knight and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division] advanced on Hill 355....

The first time Mort Oman experienced enemy fire was in the Philippines when the Japanese fired upon him, and he did not...

Vernon Grimes wanted to protect his rank, so he joined the Reserves after the war and was called up for the Korean War...

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

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

Jack D. Samuelson continued at Occidental [Annotator’s Note: he was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles,...

Robert Marich first entered the service in February 1941. In April 1941, at Camp Mackall, North Carolina [Annotator's...

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

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

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

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was...

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