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Grant Ichikawa helped coerce a large number of Japanese soldiers to surrender in the jungles of the Philippines. The...

Wim de Jonge worked in unsafe conditions in the coal mines of Japan. He was there for about a year. That was the...

Clarence Robert Duff was born in 1923 in the farm country of North Dakota. He was one of nine children. His family was...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams joined the Marine Corps on 17 March 1943. He trained at San Diego [Annotator's Note: US...

Carroll Harris and the 1st Platoon [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, 7th Scout Company (Provisional), 7th Infantry...

Dr. Robert Beynon was aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) for missions seven through nine. The seventh was a lifeguard duty...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

Edward Bale and his tanks loaded into LCMs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft, Mechanized] and then into an LSD [...

Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

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