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Deen recalls thinking how lucky he was that he was not killed on the first day [Annotators Note: 15 September 1944 on...

Yukio Kawamoto does not think he changed too much during the war. He was born in Berkeley [Annotator's Note: Berkley,...

Harold Long was born in January 1926 in Lawrence, Kansas. He grew up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression...

Marvin Tyson served because he would serve his country any time and was drafted. He doubts he would have served if not...

John E. Johnson described accommodations on the APD [Annotator's Note: Johnson served aboard the high speed transport...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

Next, Stanley Stewart was sent to Jacksonville Air Station [Annotator's Note: Naval Air Station Jacksonville] in...

Joseph Fisher went back to college after he returned home. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or...

Years later Vejtasa asked Japanese veterans if they had thought about strafing the deck and they said no. Vejtasa would...

World War 2 began in 1931 when Japan invaded north China [Annotator's Note: Manchuria region of China]. Austin H....

The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...

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