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Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

Joseph Townsend remembers the other port city he went to was Alexandria [Annotator’s Note: Alexandria, Egypt]. There...

Ittsei Nakagawa never wanted to talk about it [Annotator's Note: surviving the atomic bomb detonation over Hiroshima,...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Philips served in the Army as a combat medic in the 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry...

David Heath served on Guadalcanal for six months and ten days. He had a colonel that was sent back to Camp Lejeune [...

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

Susan Magnuson Devoe says that people had to adapt to camp life [Annotator's Note: as internees at the Santo Tomas...

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

William Cart was sent down to Gillespie [Annotator's Note: Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California], an outlying field...

Jack Skaggs heard about Pearl Harbor on Monday morning, 8 December 1941. [Annotator's Note: Wake Island is west of, and...

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