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There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

Sidney Philips remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor while sitting at a drug store counter on the corner of Dauphin and...

The United States came together in the Second World War, Edward Allesandro said, and he is sure that the soldiers'...

Edward Bale witnessed attacks by Japanese troops who were inebriated. He learned to like the Japanese after the war...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

Baptiste had a janitorial service. One of his clients was a doctor who stayed on Corregidor [Annotator's Note:...

Chester Hollingsworth was in the Pacific when the bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Paul Sartori Jr. returned home in January 1946. His father was waiting for him. He needed him to go to work. He was a...

Warren Huggins went back to the Philippines and then went to Kobe [Annotator’s Note: Kobe, Japan]. Then he went back to...

Gene Alair was aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34) during the battle of Guadalcanal. Saipan was a big operation [Annotator’s...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and his entourage met some of the Wake Island conquerors. [Annotator's Note: Borne and six...

Meda Royce Hall and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 68 (VC-68) aboard the USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)]...

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