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Mahlen Arledge and the 81st Infantry Division were placed on ships that were destined for the island of Angaur. The...

Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

World War 2 made Alfred A. Lingo rethink about how to react to things. He learned to control his emotions in order to...

Clayton Hall's most memorable experience of the war is fighting and wondering what he would be doing if he ever got out...

Edward F. Kent headed to Kiska in the Aleutian Islands [Annotator’s Note: Aleutian Islands, Alaska] with his unit [...

After the Japanese invaded the Philippines, Paul Kerchum and his company were ordered to report to Bataan [Annotator’s...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

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

Some of the things Richard F. Penwell [Annotator's Note: and the rest of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute...

Sumner Whitten arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, west of Honolulu. The mess from the attack on Pearl Harbor was...

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