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[Annotator’s Note: Someone is coughing in the background throughout this segment.] Willie D. Knippers was born in Pike...

Carl Payne heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

Wesley S. Mullen was born in March 1925 in southwest Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] and...

Harold Luers was about 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Jerry LaMura was born in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan, New York City, New York] in June 1925. He grew up in...

Clifford Suthern Hayes applied for officer candidate school but was sent overseas with his regiment [Annotator's Note:...

Billy P. Bassett was born in December 1924 in Deep River, Iowa. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa with his brother and two...

Gerard L. Azemar was born in Thibodeaux, Louisiana in August 1923. He grew up there. It was a small town where everyone...

Charles White was born in 1924 in Coraopolis [Annotator’s Note: Coraopolis, Pennsylvania]. He served from 1941 to 1945...

Walter Henry Barton’s job with his regiment [Annotator’s Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

James Craig was a corporal and knew shorthand. A commanding officer wanted him to be his secretary. Craig did not want...

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