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Nobuo Hayashi remembers when the Americans arrived in their jeeps playing jazz music. He did not trust them at first...

Bill Toledo was sent from Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands with Headquarters Company, 3rd...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Wiley was put into a shack and slept the night there. That night he met the Chief of the tribe and was taken to a...

Richard Greer experienced some bayonet fighting during the Battle for Henderson Field but more so at Point Cruz. They...

Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] went to Honolulu [...

O’Neil Ducharme was born in February 1925 near Elizabeth Falls, Maine. His parents immigrated to Maine from Canada in...

Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

Lawrence Brooks feels that young people should learn about World War 2. Much can be learned at The National WWII Museum...

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