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Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

Asked how he got a Japanese flag, Holly Rees said that nearly every enemy soldier carried one folded up on top of the...

Ernest Chauvin was drafted and went to basic training at Camp Croft, South Carolina. It was a pretty camp and was...

Hawk's father had served in the Army Coast Artillery in the Philippines during World War I and woke Hawk up at 3 in the...

Risto Milosevich grew up in East Los Angeles, California. During summer vacation he would repair concrete driveways to...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout this segment.] Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to...

Russell Hoff never thought he would die in a prisoner of war camp. There was a secret crystal radio kept in the POW...

Before being discharged from the hospital, Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] returned to his unit by lifting a...

While in Burma, Herbert Auerbach saw American transport aircraft resupply Allied troops with airdrops. Bags of rice...

Roy H. Matsumoto was transferred to the 1st Battalion, 475th Infantry Regiment which became part of the MARS TASK FORCE...

Once Raymond VanDuzer and his fellow soldiers cleared the beach they started marching or moved out on trucks. They went...

Roswell J. Weil was born in February 1916 in Alexandria, Louisiana. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer tries a...

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