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Richard Witaker heard the Japanese propaganda from Tokyo Rose only once. That was when he had gone to the rear for food...

Robert Powers never saw his comrade who was captured again. He knew that if he were captured he would be killed. If...

Frank Campisano was born in April 1926 in Louisville, Kentucky. He had a happy childhood and family. During the...

Arthur Jackson was in the hospital in Noumea, New Caledonia for three or four weeks before being shipped back to the...

John Mikus, Jr.'s rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand] did not...

Richard O'Hara and his father were in the kitchen and heard the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Adolph Wilson arrived in San Diego for Marine training after three days of travel on a train from New Orleans. The men...

Lester Hecht and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Marine Aircraft Group 32 (MAG-32)] trained pilots in Honolulu [Annotator...

The intelligence group was on Thomas Francis Schicker's outfit's [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...

Robert Erskine Hendrick's [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th Marine Defense Battalion] father [Annotator's Note:...

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