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Photograph. Covered sleeping hammock hanging between two trees; clothes are also hanging on the ropes. Personal caption...

Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

William Disanza had a navy crew aboard his Merchant Marine ship. Their job was to handle the guns. They had a submarine...

Gus Gikas and two other men swam about a mile from the sinking HMT Rhona to the Pioneer [Annotator's Note: USS Pioneer...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

Samuel Spector thought the Kachin people were diverse. They were from various areas. Some were very smart and others...

After Calvin F. Bannon completed flight school and received his commission in Texas, he was sent to Miami Beach [...

In this clip, Richard Notebaert talks about the missions he flew over the bigger cities in Italy, attacking an airfield...

Marshall Burnett was born in Meridian, Mississippi in November 1925. He attended Marion Park Elementary School, Kate...

McNeil reported to Fort Belvoir [Annotator's Note: Fort Belvoir, Virginia] but that was too close to Washington D.C....

Perry L. Garten was born in November 1917 in Peculiar, Missouri. He grew up in Missouri and graduated from high school...

According to William J. Pribyl, the pipeline that pumped petroleum to China made it to Myitkyina [Annotator's Note:...

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