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Wesley Carroll and his wife raised three children. Their first son, James Stephen, was born in 1948 and was adopted by...

Wim de Jonge was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] and worked for the Japanese on the railroad through Thailand...

After leaving Pearl Harbor, William Roy and the rest of the crew of the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Jack Holder did not talk about his World War 2 experiences until recently. He booked a trip to New York on an Arizona...

It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war]. Emmett Kaylor...

Rogers was born in Saltville, Virginia on 1 January 1915.He graduated from high school in 1932 during the middle of the...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez ended up on a LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also known as...

Paul Fair moved on to Japan after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August 1945, officially...

Rob Roy Ratliff was discharged from the Marine Corps and then used the G.I. Bill to attend American University in...

Harold Bergbower has no memory of the trip from the POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in Davao on Mindanao...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...

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