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At the end of 1943, the Japanese made Bruno S. Rinas and his comrades build an airport outside of Manila [Annotator's...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

William Barnes was sent home on leave after returning to the United States from the Pacific. He enjoyed seeing his...

Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

Kenneth Wieland does not remember too much about his basic training but recalls there was a lot of marching and time on...

After twelve weeks of training in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi] Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer was sent...

[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy...

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