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Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was very confused after visiting his family in an internment camp but returned to Fort Snelling...

Lawrence Eustis was on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when he heard about VE-Day [...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

In September Henderson was on a flight to China as navigator. He was with a crew that had to bail out on the flight...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Lester Shapiro did not know anything about getting a Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the Bronze Star Medal is the fourth...

John Alison’s duties also resulted in him being a glider pilot despite never having flown one before. He flew a glider...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Roy Uthes arrived in Myitkyinā without any combat experience. His unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer...

Joseph McGuire was sent to India in 1943. The British controlled everything in India, so he had to get permission from...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

Frank R. Burnside was born in February 1915 in Tensas Parish in Newellton, Louisiana, on Franklin Plantation, where he...

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