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Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. realized that there were no officers to protect the Wake Island Marines who were prisoners of...

James McEnery is a Catholic, Irish-American from Brooklyn. He considers anyone from his background who is not...

After Harold Rosen was wounded, he went back into action. The shrapnel was embedded and it allowed him to serve, but...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

Richard O'Hara was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1925 and lived there until he was about 15. He considers...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Oscar Culp was born in May 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young African-American, he saw some of the biases...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole had been drafted into the US Marine Corps and was on his way to Camp Lejeune, North...

Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

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