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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about a soldier who committed suicide.] A guy told...

Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...

In civilian life, William J. Twigger had a dear friend who became an officer in the Navy. By stroke of luck, he wrote...

James D. Comeaux’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was watching the massacre of U.S. troops on Okinawa [...

Robert Powers went ashore unopposed at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was in a foxhole with his buddy...

There were four parallel 9,000 foot runways [Annotator's Note: on Tinian]. Paul Dietzel's group was at the far end. One...

After basic training, James Franklin Young was sent to New River, North Carolina and placed in the Fleet Marine Force....

David Lamar Mealor thought the Japanese soldiers were very brutal and treated people inhumanely. The dropping of atomic...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After the war ended...

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

John Kelley's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he took part in liberating the Los Baños Prison Camp [...

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