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Paul Franklin landed in Manila Bay [Annotator’s Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] 23 days after setting sail. He...

As Peter Paret's battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division] moved down...

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

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

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

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

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

As a few days had past, Edward E. Boyles and his platoon [Annotator's Note: at the time, Boyles was serving as a...

Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

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

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