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Walter Jacobs thought that the Japanese were not normal people. They were fanatics. They were good at sneaking around...

Robert Leroy Shirkey was selected to join the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit] in...

When William Goldsborough turned 18 in January 1944, he registered for the draft, and was allowed to finish out his...

James Richard O'Rorke worked in the factory [Annotator's Note: in a steel mill in Ōsaka, Japan as a prisoner of war]...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

Emmett Kaylor was only about 500 yards away from the Japanese. They were so hungry that they ate despite the smells....

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] was not promoted until...

Paul Bannai joined the Allied Translator Interpreter Service [Annotator's Note: referred to as ATIS], which served all...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...

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

Trinidad Ledesma was tired and had jungle worms, so he decided not to reenlist. He was at a hospital and quarantined...

David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...

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