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Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

Greg Woodham and his mother were interned at Santo Tomas [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as...

After enlisting in the Navy, John St. Germain had his boot camp training in Farragut, Idaho [Annotator’s Note: Farragut...

Glenn Frazier entered a compound after the long Bataan Death March. The marchers were so fatigued that they simply...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was born in August 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up there until he enlisted in the...

Willie D. Knippers did not have trouble to adjusting back to civilian life after he separated from the service. He used...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

James T. Connelly was born in June 1922 in Dorange, South Carolina on a farm. His father had to hunt for a job. His...

Some of the things Richard F. Penwell [Annotator's Note: and the rest of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute...

Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...

Vejtasa could see the Lexington on fire but still recovering planes. The Yorktown was also burning but recovering...

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