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While Philip Schweitzer's unit [Annotator's Note: the 11th Airborne Division] was trapped on the ridge on Leyte, they...

Arthur McHardy was born Angus, Scotland in October 1924. He vaguely recalls growing up in Scotland. He was only five [...

Melvin C. Whitman had to figure out how to work with the Army when he landed on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Noah Lewis remembers the people on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] were friendly towards black people....

Donald H. "Don" Bee had an explosive, right-hand man named Patterson [Annotator's Note: no given name provided]. Bee...

When Kenneth Wieland arrived in Japan, he saw a bunch of American prisoners of war who were nothing but skin and bones...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] headed north on the Bataan Death March [Annotator's Note:...

After completing basic training, Jack H. Bleuler was sent to Texas A...

Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...

Bill Toledo saw his first combat on 1 November 1943. He landed on the island of Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Dale Bates flew seven missions as an instructor before the squad was disbanded in October 1944. Bates was then...

All of the barnstormers had on the boots, leather jackets and goggles and all had a bottle of spirits in the back seat...

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