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In 1944, Leander Bubrig enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana for induction. His hair was cut...

Alfred Rodrigues wanted to be an engineer in the Navy. He found that the engine room was very hot and he passed out in...

Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Sidney Philips remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor while sitting at a drug store counter on the corner of Dauphin and...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

Harold Ronson experienced one of the most anti-Semitic incidents in his life going into Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note:...

Alfred A. Lingo was born in San, Jose, Costa Rica in March 1914. His father was a civilian engineer for United Fruit...

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

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Earl Williams and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] would be attacked by the...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

The engines on the plane that Thatcher was working with were in phenomenal shape due to the diligence they displayed in...

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