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Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...

Jacques Brewster Smith's company commander [Annotator's Note: of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry...

Harry Bender was discharged from the Marine Corps in June 1946. His friend, William "Bill" Laden [Annotator's Note: US...

William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...

Norman Hatch was asleep at his place in New York on the morning of 7 December 1941. He had preset his radio to turn on...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Everett Pope...

After basic training, Herbert Yudenfriend was sent to Camp Howze in Texas near Dallas [Annotator's Note: Cooke County,...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was born in Elgin, North Dakota in January 1926. His father had a farm, but they moved in 1941 to...

On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...

George Alaniz is from New Mexico. He was there when the draft started, and he decided to volunteer for the Army for one...

After an hour [Annotator's Note: of being stranded during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo...

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