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After Karen K. Lewis and her parents were liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas...

In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training. He was...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

From Leyte, the 7th Infantry Division went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], and Peter Gallo described...

John Singlaub experienced live fire training while working with the SOE [Annotator's Note: British Special Operations...

Some of the things Richard F. Penwell [Annotator's Note: and the rest of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute...

William Hill’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was cleaning underneath the deck because he had to crawl around...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...

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