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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Abner Aust to describe the mission where he shot down three Japanese Franks -...

Marion Labauve came out of school in seventh grade. He went to work and worked hard. His first job was working on a...

As a 13 year old, David Yoho did not have friends of draft age. He did keep company with older boys and took on a tough...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. landed in Yokohama, Japan [Annotator's Note: following the end of the war in September 1945]....

The Japanese commander of the camp, stood up on a platform and spoke in Japanese with an interpreter, and says, "The...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Gonzales was 10 years old when the Japanese invaded [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippine Islands]. At the time he...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

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