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Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...

Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...

Woods was upset after the war because he wasn't given the benefits of the G.I. Bill. A friend of his his who had been...

In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...

The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...

Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] did not get to see...

Nobuo Hayashi came to America in 1963 for business and decided he wanted to stay in the country indefinitely. In 1966,...

Vernon Henry Moret returned to Maryland after he was discharged from the Army and lived with his parents. He attended...

John Wicklund says the most effective weapon the infantry used was the Browning Automatic Rifle [Annotator's Note: BAR...

Edwin Henlebin became interested in the activities of a photographer who was taking shots of an open air, 24 hour mess...

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