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Ray Dennis Irby stayed overseas from 1943 until December 1945. He was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] when...

Vaughn Whitworth boarded a troop train to Norfolk, Virginia where he loaded onto the USS James O'Hara (APA-90) and...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army's 246th Ordnance Ammunition Battalion] sewed...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...

William Earl Gast was assigned to the 743rd Tank Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 1st...

When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...

When Marvin Martin heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Joseph Townsend was being trained as a radioman and radio technician. They wanted him to become an aviation technician...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Richard Witaker heard the Japanese propaganda from Tokyo Rose only once. That was when he had gone to the rear for food...

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