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Samuel Spector returned home from Burma by troopship. From Myitkyina, Spector went to Calcutta, India and shipped out...

Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...

In Ledo, McNeil saw every type of wound. She worked on GIs and on Chinese patients. She worked in the Chinese ward for...

Harold Daniel Snyder was born in October 1925 in Wyckoff, New Jersey. He was an only child. [Annotator's Note: The...

Courtland Claus will never forget what the Japanese did [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

In the middle of 1941, the draft was extended to 18 months [Annotator's Note: the amount of time to be served]. Raymond...

Cleveland Peterson's most memorable experience was being close to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. During the...

Returning to the United States on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], Richard...

The next day after a good sleep, the Herbert Gross and his shipmate left the village at dawn [Annotator's Note: after...

Richard Cole was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915. After graduating from high school he went to work on a farm for 75...

Joseph McGuire went on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] to Bombay [Annotator'...

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