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Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

Charles Chatterton was relieved to be back in the United States. On his return, they stopped in Honolulu [Annotator's...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

Ruffin Walker Dawson [Annotator's Note: with the 51st Defense Battalion] found out he was going overseas in February...

Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] did not...

When their training schedule was complete, James “Jim” R. Boyd and the rest of his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Motor...

When he was in high school, Paul Amrod played baseball as a catcher. In the service, he learned he was not major league...

En route to his battle station, Robert Kinzler had a clear view of Pearl Harbor, which was a mass of black smoke, with...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

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