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Benjamin Hagans remembers they were in the sea and the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese]...

Edgar Eugene "Gene" Fricker had his boot camp training in San Diego, California. Even though he was in the Navy, he was...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was born in September 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family lived in a rural area...

[Annotator’s Note: Airplanes flying overhead are audible throughout segment.] John R. Eisenach was born in May 1925 on...

William Scott Stroud was born in June 1921 in Huntington, Arkansas but soon moved to Shady Point, Oklahoma where he...

Reneau Breard [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

John S. Johnson stood with his hands in the air as the Japanese searched his pockets. He had no water or food for a day...

William Schrader was born in February 1926 in Hollywood, Florida. An only child, his father moved the family to...

Sammy Ray remembered his first night on Peleliu he was stuck down hill with two wounded Marines but the sick bay was up...

Charles Balaza worked on a farm detail at Cabanatuan. Fertilizer for the crops was human defecation. "Honey buckets"...

Carl Landwehr has no secrets about his war service. He never saw any of the concentration camps. He had rumors of them...

Prone to seasickness, Leo Porteau was glad the 14 day return trip didn't include the evasive zig-zagging [Annotator's...

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