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Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

In the fall of 1943, When Frank M. Heuer Sr.’s course at Hall-Scott Motor Car Company [Annotator’s Note: in Berkeley,...

Mahlen Arledge left Peleliu after the battle for the island was won. His company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd...

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

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

Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit's [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] first...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

Joseph LaNier had a close call on Okinawa while driving a truck. The LST [Annotator’s Note: LST—landing ship, tank] was...

Occasionally, there were some funny things that happened in the prison camp, according to Randall Edwards. The...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the army as a radio...

Prior to landing in New Guinea DeMers' unit was never given any jungle training. In Australia they were trained how to...

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