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William Burkett was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] was not hard...

Earl Dean Browning was on a gun crew in his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

James Billingsley encountered quite a bit of Japanese resistance going up Highway 17 [Annotator's Note: now Emilio...

After the Raid [Annotator's Note: the liberation of the Los Banos Internment Camp on 23 February 1945; Los Banos, Luzon...

John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: an American prisoner of war] and hundreds of other POWs were transferred from O'...

Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese, was forced to work in the Mitsubishi mine number 11 [Annotator’s Note: in...

Samuel Malta voyaged from New Zealand to New Caledonia. He imbibed a potent whiskey while at Nouméa. Missing his ride...

Howard Warren Stokes is thankful for being alive and for the government paying for his education. He is also happy...

Paul A. Franklin was born in in February 1922 in Elm Grove, Louisiana. He was raised during the Great Depression [...

When Edward F. Kent went into combat in Europe, he carried a carbine [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic...

Walter Jacobs thought that the Japanese were not normal people. They were fanatics. They were good at sneaking around...

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