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[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

The first move Peter Gallo made with the unit [Annotator's Note: 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] was to...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

Charles Chartier thought he would go where it was nice and warm. He joined his outfit overseas. As they left Seattle,...

On 20 August 1945, Joseph Vater was liberated by Russian soldiers. He remembered them dropping in by parachute. At...

[Annotator's Note: While he was living in Detroit, Michigan and working as a streetcar driver,] Andrew Petrus received...

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

Ray Dennis Irby turned 17 in 1941. He was in the backyard of his home in Meridian [Annotator's Note: Meridian,...

After the Japanese surrendered, Clarence Strobel [Annotator’s Note: serving with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 188th Glider...

John Singlaub returned to Kunming and was met by an officer at the airplane. Orders were received from OSS [Annotator's...

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