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Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

Howard Hart saw how difficult it was to survive in the internment camps. In order to prevent the Japanese from taking...

Jack Leaming had a buddy nicknamed Ace who was a prisoner of war, POW, from the carrier Yorktown. [Annotator's Note: At...

Thomas Tizzard was aboard the USS Denver (CL-58) when it went into dry dock to be repaired after being torpedoed. The...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese held in a camp in Cabanatuan [Annotator’s Note: Cabanatuan, the Philippines],...

Hershel Williams was born and raised in a country atmosphere in West Virginia. His father was in the dairy business....

Randall Edwards does not remember how he got "mixed up with the Russians," but he has photos that prove he did. He does...

Allen Ray Sibley almost stayed in the Army. He liked being a soldier. He is glad he did not stay in because he would...

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