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Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...

Lionel Lopez had an M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. He had a...

While Philip Schweitzer's unit [Annotator's Note: the 11th Airborne Division] was trapped on the ridge on Leyte, they...

Donald Draxler was mad at the Japanese for the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

John Geiger was shipped to New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 31st Infantry Division]. They went through...

Edward Riedl remembers that Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was different than Leyte [Annotator's Note:...

Allen Ray Sibley almost stayed in the Army. He liked being a soldier. He is glad he did not stay in because he would...

After basic training, Robert J. "Bob" Brasel went to Camp Irwin [Annotator's Note: now Fort Irwin in San Bernardino...

World War 2 made Whayland Harvel Greene appreciate food, water, and shelter. He had no food for five days during his...

Paul Takeo Bannai decided to go to Washington D.C. to lobby for the inclusion of Japanese-Americans in the military. He...

They ended up at Camp Custer. DeMers had been getting promoted this entire time. He made 1st Sergeant by 1940. They...

Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...

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