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John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...

After he left the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1947], Allen Ray Sibley took a test for his GED [Annotator's Note: acronym...

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...

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

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

Glen Kuskie had just made it to shore after surviving a Hell ship that was sunk by the Americans. [Annotator's Note:...

Emiline Ann Bourgeois went to nurses' school [Annotator's Note: Hotel Dieu School of Nursing in New Orleans, Louisiana...

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

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