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As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

During his interrogation, Fiske Hanley was asked some military questions, but the Japanese interest centered mostly on...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] felt...

Ray Eshelman had been on USS LST-925 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts, before reporting aboard USS...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...

The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...

Arthur McHardy was born Angus, Scotland in October 1924. He vaguely recalls growing up in Scotland. He was only five [...

Alfred Dearman had never seen a tv [Annotator's Note: television] and kept reading about them. Another of his buddy and...

While in Manila, Wim de Jonge was ordered to return to the Dutch Army to fight an uprising in the Dutch East Indies....

The B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] appealed to William Smith as an airplane. The...

While Vernon Henry Moret was on a ship headed to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] with his unit [Annotator's...

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