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Representatives from each camp were taken to Okinawa for a meeting to determine the best way to get the American...

One of the worst times Philip Schweitzer experienced was the month that he spent on the plateau on New Guinea. Another...

Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

James Bowie used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted...

Richard Hebert, Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was during basic training. One of the trainees suffered...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan did not...

When Ernest Cowell was in high school, his friends started being drafted. One boy was a tanker [Annotator's Note: part...

[Annotator's Note: A portion of the video is cut out.] Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion...

Eugene Corson went to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22 June...

At the end of the war, Chris Carawan said there were thousands of German prisoners that had been taken. The Americans...

They [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were put ashore on New...

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