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Hershel Williams does not remember knocking out some of the pillboxes. One of them, however, Williams remembers, ran...

The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...

George Joseph Sullivan was on a ship gun crew. When he would be sitting off the beach, he would ask to go ashore. Once...

Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

Albert Yamamoto had to wait for his United States citizenship to be verified before he could return to home from Japan...

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

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

After securing Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], Haney Ambrose [Annotator's Note: with...

John Geiger was born in Newark, New Jersey in April 1923. He had two sisters. His father was a contractor for trucking...

James McEnery was born in Brooklyn, New York in September 1919. He grew up in Brooklyn in a rugged area. There was a...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Baile served in the USAAF and as a flight engineer on B-29 bombers.] Finally, they got their...

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