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Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...

When Edward Riedl went ashore [Annotator's Note: during the landing on Leyte, Philippines], Zeros [Annotator's Note:...

Edwin Knight was in the Philippines when fighting began to subside. The priority for logistical support was redirected...

Susan Magnuson Devoe remembers being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

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

Harold Jones [Annotator's Note: deployed to the Pacific in May 1944 with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th...

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

Jacques Brewster Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

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...

The Battle of the Driniumor River ended in August of 1944 after the Japanese 18th Army had been completely decimated....

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