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Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

Courtland Claus could see buildings just beyond the dock when he arrived in India. He saw a stagecoach going by. It was...

William Disanza refused an order one time. They asked them to knock off a group of Japs. They always scouted ahead to...

There were just a few Americans assigned to Samuel Spector's OSS Detachment 101 outfit. Some came and went, but there...

Since he was a twin-engine pilot, Joseph McGuire had been told he would be a training pilot but was then reassigned to...

They got to the target [Annotators Note: Burma railway] at 9:00 in the morning and no other aircraft were there. They...

After the war was over, John Hever was sent into Shanghai, China. He said he went into the city a couple of times and...

Herbert Gross recollects sending his sister off by train to the west coast when the bombing of Pearl Harbor was...

The war made Harold Daniel Snyder a man. His time in the Army Air Corps was as good as two years in college. He learned...

When Cleveland Peterson arrived in India there was a culture shock. There was also a physical shock as many of the men...

After Marshall Burnett's induction at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Notes: Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi], he...

Edward Denzler was born in Jamaica, New York. He grew up during the Great Depression and happily attended art classes...

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