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Lionel Lopez would have followed his captain anywhere. He was half-Indian. He was a fighting man. Lopez carried an M1 [...

After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. went to Saint Petersburg, Florida for Merchant Marine basic training. It was not...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman ended...

Once William Garbo returned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, he resumed command of his machine gun...

In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...

Rudolph C. Miller had no place to go and nowhere to live when he was 16. He tried to forge his certificate [Annotator's...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

Upon returning to the United States in January 1946 from serving in the Merchant Marine, Dee Wayne White signed up to...

John Smith's journey overseas began in San Francisco, California in early June and ended in Brisbane, Australia in July...

Crump was able to get a gold crown in his teeth and was able to join. This was in late 1943. Crump was told then that...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

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