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Roger Shaw wanted to ship out on a vessel that traversed the Mississippi River frequently. This would better enable him...

Ben Kuroki has been ever so grateful for the fellow Americans who went to bat for him decades after the war. Their...

Glenn Frazier sailed the Pacific on the USS Cleveland troopship [Annotator's Note: the passenger liner SS President...

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

Richard Welch joined the Navy in November 1944 and was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training [Annotator's Note: Naval...

oy Stewart [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] saw Japanese Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

After spending months trying to kill Japanese, Oran Harris now had to live with them. He felt sorry for the civilians,...

Allen Ray Sibley was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: on 24 February 1944]. They put him on a Greyhound bus to...

Lionel Lopez remembers that they took a ship to Australia, but ended up in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

John Singlaub had expected that his team would lead an attack on a German garrison, but a competing Communist...

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