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Prior to landing in New Guinea DeMers' unit was never given any jungle training. In Australia they were trained how to...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...

Dr. Peter Paret, military historian and author, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, and his youth and life were shaped...

Andrew Leblanc, Junior was born in July 1926 in McCall [Annotator's Note: McCall, Louisiana]. He had seven sisters and...

Samuel Hadjinian was sent Japan with the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion during occupation to build airfields and...

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

The news [Annotator's Note: of the atomic bombs being dropped] reached Thomas J. Bostick's unit [Annotator's Note:...

William Earl Gast was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in September 1924. He grew up with two sisters. His dad worked...

Nicanor Guzman was born in the Philippines in March 1918. He got his two year basic course in the Army. He also studied...

Robert Jarvis’ regiment [Annotator’s Note: 534th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, 4th Engineer Special Brigade] used...

Mahlen Arledge experienced his first combat on Angaur. He had no idea what to expect in combat. The first night on the...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

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