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Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

When Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...

Hersey Goodwin is glad his daughter called [Annotator's Note: for this interview]. He does not mind discussing it at...

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

Bailey was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina on 12 September 1921.During the Great Depression Bailey's clothes...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents with Irish ancestry in April 1924. He joined the...

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

Walter Bowsher made his first arrest while he was in the Army. He was serving as a temporary military policeman when he...

Burton Johnson entered into service at Clinton, Arkansas at age 18. At Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he was assigned to the 1st...

From China, the USS Balduck (ADP-132) took Donald Dean and the rest of the crew back to Okinawa, then to Hawaii,...

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

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