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Masaji Inoshita was born in central California. At an early age he moved down to the Santa Barbara area. His father had...

Roy H. Matsumoto listened to news reports from Japan on his shortwave radio. He could tell some of it was propaganda,...

Robert Liles was born in 1920 in Webb City, Missouri and grew up in Jefferson City. When the depression began, his...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee randomly claps his hands throughout segment.] Harold Hughes served with the 1305th Army...

Joel Varner had no desire to stay in the Army Air Forces. He wanted an education. He went right back to college. He got...

David K. Hayward decided to enlist [Annotator's Note: in February 1942] and do something attractive to him instead of...

Sherman was going to hit a target on Formosa. They took off and flew practically at sea level. When they got back to...

Roy H. Matsumoto did not realize he had been assigned to OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services;...

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

Cortland Claus was born in May 1925 in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. He spent his first 10 years going through grade four...

Berle Wheeler experienced Japanese air raids but slit trenches protected him from the attacks [Annotator's Note: he was...

Before he graduated, Harold Daniel Snyder went to enlist in the Army Air Corps with three others. His parents did not...

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