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Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota [Annotator's Note: with Merrill's Marauders, the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)] walked...

Roy H. Matsumoto was almost killed at the Myitkyina [Annotator's Note: Myitkyina, Burma; now Myitkyina, Myanmar]...

Lawrence Eustis was drafted into the Army Air Corps on 20 July 1942 and sent to Alexandria, Louisiana for his...

Samuel Spector was always hungry in the jungle with Detachment 101. The food that was airdropped would not last long so...

William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a flying instructor with the US Army Air Forces] was sent to school to...

Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was transferred to Kunming [Annotator's Note: Kunming, China] followed by an assignment to the...

Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...

Courtland Claus used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

Esther McNeil grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. She was the sixth of eight children.After going into nursing...

The war did not change Raymond Kaiser a bit. He felt like he was doing his job. He was in [Annotator's Note: in the...

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