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Berle Wheeler was company clerk in his outfit [Annotator's Note: 967th Engineer Maintenance Company] when it arrived at...

John Alison's departure from Burma occurred when he was behind enemy lines. He left in a damaged RAF [Annotator's Note...

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

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

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

Herbert Gross was born in March 1917. He served in the 375th Squadron of the 308th Heavy Bomb Group of the Fourteenth...

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

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

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

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

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

Joseph Silvia thought the caste system in India was odd. The Americans lived like kings compared to the British there....

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