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Robert Jarvis was born in Muskegon, Michigan in September 1923. He had one younger brother and one younger sister. His...

As far as Yukio Kawamoto could tell, he did not experience too much racism or ill feelings towards him. Most of his...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

Going across the Pacific [Annotator's Note: Pacific Ocean] to the Philippines, Kenneth Raymond Goodwin stopped in Guam...

Joe G. Casillas was trained as a rifleman in the infantry. He got to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana...

Joe G. Casillas had his baptism of fire right on the escarpment [Annotator's Note: after landing on Okinawa, Japan, 10...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

Robert L. Donovan remembers that the Filipinos would take the leftovers from the soldiers after they would liberate an...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

Looking back on the war, Peter Gallo said World War 2 was a "necessary evil," and he did what he had to do. He believes...

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