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Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...

They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] let some of the Red Cross packages go to pot. They would put them in store house...

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

John Smith was out on a patrol miles into enemy territory when he was "relieved of all hazardous duty" and told he was...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...

William Earl Gast was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in September 1924. He grew up with two sisters. His dad worked...

Lionel Lopez would have followed his captain anywhere. He was half-Indian. He was a fighting man. Lopez carried an M1 [...

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

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

Walter Groth [Annotator’s Note: stationed in the Philippines] provided fire support in the beginning. Then they were...

Robert Jarvis’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was seeing his brother in Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the...

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