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Susan Magnuson Devoe says that people had to adapt to camp life [Annotator's Note: as internees at the Santo Tomas...

When he heard that the war had ended, Robert Dickinson was disappointed that he wasn't going back to combat in the...

They [Annotator's Note: Edward Driscoll and Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13), USS Franklin (CV-13)] left Leyte [Annotator's...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

Claude Shannahan left Tulagi and boarded the USS Colhoun (APD-2) on the way to Guadalcanal. They had just gotten into...

The picture of Leisey is on half a dozen things that he can think of. He has copies of the picture that go back to 1944...

Harold Rosen was born in Dallas, Texas in April 1925. His father owned his own business so the depression did not hit...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

Robert “Bob” Bowron was born in Birmingham [Annotator’s Note: Birmingham, Alabama] in January 1927. He recalled when...

When Bill Toledo was home with his grandparents, he did not want to go to school. The school official forced him to go...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

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