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Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

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

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was at a movie when he was told the Japanese surrendered. His area did not believe the news....

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

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

Ellis Whaley spent a lot of time talking to his boys before they got off their ship [Annotator's Note: during the...

Albert Simon was at Woodpecker Ridge in Luzon [Annotator’s Note: Luzon, the Philippines]. They landed on Leyte Island [...

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

When Marvin Martin returned to Fort Sheridan [Annotator’s Note: Fort Sheridan, Illinois] after Christmas 1945, he was...

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

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

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

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