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

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...

Towards the end of the war, they [Annotator's Note: the British officers] were telling them [Annotator's Note: Masaji...

Herbert Clyde Saylor [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th...

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

Gate Tate knew he would be drafted so he volunteered in order to be able to select the branch that he would serve in....

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

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:...

Robert Offenbacher had a lieutenant who worked next to his office. Offenbacher’s twin brother did not have a job in...

The first place Brooks was taken to was a building. The men were fed once a day by the natives who brought them soup....

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