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Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He attended a one-room school and...

William Burkett was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in November 1925. He had three...

James Billingsley was treated well as a replacement. In combat troops, it is a different thing altogether. He never...

Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...

After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...

Tenney's first contact with the Japanese was on the morning of the 10th [Annotators Note: April 10, 1942] in a bivouac...

Samuel Malta went into the service in June 1943. He took his basic training at Camp Wheeler near Macon, Georgia. He was...

The SS Lurline, on which Virginia Wilterdink was traveling, stopped in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

Walter Jacobs thought the BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] was a good weapon but required a lot of...

When Alfred Dearman got to Japan, he went to a replacement depot. He waited around there with his friend he had gone to...

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