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One afternoon they were taken to a railroad station and put on a train but were not told where they were going. The...

William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...

Eventually, Bougainville was taken [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at...

John W. Snyder was born in March 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, Snyder's family was poor. However, because...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. and other men were crammed into a ship heading to Japan [Annotator's Note: as a Japanese...

Matthew Cornelia's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it ended. He served because he wanted to do...

Harold Hauberg [Annotator's Note: with Company D, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] landed...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Robert L. Donovan remembers that the Filipinos would take the leftovers from the soldiers after they would liberate an...

[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...

Hersey Goodwin was born in January 1925 in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana in the town of Jones. He lived on a farm. He...

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