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It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Ray Eshelman was never interested in a military career. He had a couple of choices at discharge. He could join the...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

Kenneth Dwight Wells was shipped to the Pacific in November 1944 aboard the USS O.H. Ernst (AP-133) [Annotator's Note:...

Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] moved up to the next island because there...

Roy Stewart went to Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii after the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945 at...

James W. Metcalf was born in Toledo, Ohio in September 1924. When he was still an infant, Metcalf’s father moved the...

With all of the different kinds of huts that the Filipinos used they mainly used armor-piercing ammunition because...

[Annotator's Note: Leonard Brooks and his family lived just outside of Manila in the Philippines. Following the...

The VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] had their headquarters in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans...

Nicanor Guzman was born in the Philippines in March 1918. He got his two year basic course in the Army. He also studied...

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