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[Annotator’s Note: Someone is coughing in the background throughout this segment.] Willie D. Knippers was born in Pike...

Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...

Theodore Marolda enlisted for four years in the Marine Corps. He went to Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Fred Bronfin was sent back [Annotator's Note: back to the United States] for more radar training and teaching at Saint...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Howard Hart remembers the rescue of the Los Banos internment camp [Annotator’s Note: The Raid on Los Baños in the...

James L. Wheeler spoke to a high school class and there was a person of Japanese descent in it. He asked what Wheeler...

William J. Twigger was training on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944]...

Earl Williams went to Camp Lee, Virginia [Annotator's Note: now Fort Lee in Prince George County, Virginia]. When he...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

Howard Hart saw how difficult it was to survive in the internment camps. In order to prevent the Japanese from taking...

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