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Keith Kiefer was born in January 1957 in Longview, Texas. In school, he did not get taught about World War 2 until...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Hokkaido, Japan to a prisoner of war, or POW, camp. He arrived at Hakodate Number 2 prison...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war in Japan] was a product of the Depression [Annotator'...

When Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156)] returned to Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

In Busan, South Korea, the USS Hulbert [Annotator’s Note: USS Hulbert (DD-342)] was waiting for Charles Dragich [...

Irwin Schneider arrived at Hollandia just after the landings there. There was no opposition to the assault. He had not...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Charles Womack remembers that the bunkers and emplacements were often different from one to the next. He came across...

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

Quintana did not mention events from the war too often; he talked about the war later in life. After he had his glass...

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