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Bailey was assigned to unloading ships. When he wasn't unloading ships he was walking around. He couldn't stay still....

Howard Robert Charles [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the other prisoners soon found their clothes were...

James McEnery is a Catholic, Irish-American from Brooklyn. He considers anyone from his background who is not...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

Carey Suratt believes the war in Vietnam was costly in lives, unnecessarily. He thinks it is important to teach about...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

During Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine's early days in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] During his service in the...

Robert Leroy Shirkey was born in Vliets, Kansas in April 1924. He grew up on a farm with eight brothers and sisters....

Salvador Guercia tells the tale of how he went with friends to see a guy that made corn liquor on Leyte [Annotator's...

Clayton Hall's most memorable experience of the war is fighting and wondering what he would be doing if he ever got out...

[Annotator's Note: Emmett Keylor served in the Army as a fuze setter on a 105mm gun crew in the 472nd Airborne Field...

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