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Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees were very leery of their Japanese captors. They were not all bad...

George Hamilton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting hit by a 50-foot wave and the ship shuttering....

Hershel Williams was sent to the capitol city of Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina] and from...

Marvin Tyson went to college under the G.I. Bill at New York University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York]. He...

Earl Williams was shipped out to New Guinea [Annotator's Note: with the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion]. They...

The USS Honolulu (CL-48) went back to San Francisco and Ray Emory was heading for Melbourne, Australia three or four...

Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...

Albert Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: a Japanese American living with his grandparents in Japan during World War 2]...

After returning home, Clayton Hall went to work with an oil company for a week. He then went to work in a harvest field...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

After training in Fort Lewis, Washington, Peter Dipol was sent to the Mojave Desert [Annotator’s Note: in the foothills...

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