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Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

[Annotator's Note: Andrew Petrus' wife talks about her family offscreen.] Andrew Petrus had a friend who bought a hotel...

While recovering from an ear infection [Annotator's Note: in the hospital at Fort Bragg, North Carolina], Matthew...

James Gulotta was sent to New Caledonia. New Caledonia was a French possession which was used a staging area for new...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with James Billingsley midsentence in a new story.] Billingsley says that after the...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

Pedro Parra feels that most veterans of the war did not talk too much about it. The young people have no idea what it...

After the Raid [Annotator's Note: the liberation of the Los Banos Internment Camp on 23 February 1945; Los Banos, Luzon...

Robert M. Solomon remembers that it was very hot during monsoon season. [Annotator’s Note: He was stationed on...

Kenneth Wieland's most memorable experience of the war was coming home. He had served because all the other guys his...

Robert Kinzler was born in Newark, New Jersey, but his hometown was just outside the city in Irvington. He graduated...

Carlos Reed was sent to New Guinea in 1944. He was assigned to the 6th Infantry Division as a replacement. After the...

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