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John Wesley Tatum used a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun; while serving in Company H,...

Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...

[Annotator's Note: Archibald Rackerby was wounded by friendly fire while training on Guadalcanal on 9 March 1944.]...

Gene Alair was born in February 1920 in Fargo, North Dakota. His mother was in the entertainment business, so they...

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

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison was a member of the US Marine Corps 1st Raider Battalion.]Edson [Annotators Note: US...

Burton Johnson feared that his handling of Japanese POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] would be held against him...

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

John R. Elliott was born in July 1919 in Greeley, Colorado. He lived there until he was 13 years old. He went to a one-...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

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