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When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

Shiyuza Hayashi is Japanese-American. He was born in America and did not know what Japan was like. His parents had...

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

George Sakato discusses a Vietnam veteran that edits and tapes oral histories. He recalls that before the attack on...

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

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

Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...

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