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Charles Wesley Borders served for about two months in the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1943. He and five others were sent...

For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was flying out of Charters Towers, Australia]. They were shipped from Port Moresby to...

Once word came that they were shipping out, Robert Leese flew with his crew as a passenger, stopping for fuel in Fiji,...

Keith Kiefer feels the advent of nuclear weapons is a double-edged sword. Had they not been invented, there is very...

Leo Denault was discharged on 10 March 1946. He came back on a troop carrier ship. It took seven days. It was awful. He...

Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...

Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...

James N. Rizzo's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

After his brother was drafted into the infantry, Donald F. Goyette was accompanied by his parents when he went off for...

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