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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...

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...

Burton Johnson was transferred from New Guinea to Biak and then to the lower part of the Philippines after it was...

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...

The invasion of Morotai had been building up, and Robert Marovelli's ship joined the convoy going to battle. General...

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...

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