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Grant Ichikawa does not feel that he did anything special being a linguist. He had a job to do and he did it. Ichikawa...

While Paul Bannai was in Japan, he knew his family would be able to leave their internment camp. He was given...

Before entering the military, Thomas J. Bostick received some training by a World War 1 veteran while in high school....

Glen Kuskie was born in February 1924 on a dairy farm in Lincoln, Nebraska. When his family moved to town, his dad...

Burton Johnson had over 1,500 Japanese prisoners in the massive POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in...

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

Walter Groth remembers the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had a great Air Force. Later...

Garland Bath and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 483rd Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion] were attached to the 5th...

Lionel Lopez had trouble with two men he was supervising. [Annotator’s Note: Lopez was overseeing German prisoners of...

After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...

William Earl Gast and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division] were on a...

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

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