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When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

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

James Bollich thinks there were radios in other camps [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camps], but not his. He got...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

Robert Kinzler didn't move with his regiment [Annotator's Note: 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] to...

Daniel J. Lawler deployed to the Pacific in November 1943. He felt sufficiently trained. Training was hell, but he used...

There were 2 shifts working and they would usually meet coming out. When they got to the camp everyone was outside on...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roy Boreen was stationed at the Section Base until 1943. After that, he was sent to...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

Davis Gordon Mayes was born in February 1919 in Pontotoc, Texas. During his service in World War 2, he served on the...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Annas was training for air sea rescue at Keesler Field, now Keesler Air Force Base, in Biloxi...

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