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Philip Schweitzer's training was heavy on hiking, running and jogging. When they returned from furlough, some of the...

Ellis Whaley's most memorable experience from World War 2 would have to be Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa...

Richard Lamey Nesossis was at home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

In October 1942, William S. “Bill” Beamish enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was inducted in San Pedro [Annotator’s...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war in Japan] was a product of the Depression [Annotator'...

Adolfo V. Celaya went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. The training was difficult...

Thomas Francis Schicker's boot camp training was excellent. After four weeks, they went to Camp Matthews [Annotator's...

After the Raid [Annotator's Note: the liberation of the Los Banos Internment Camp on 23 February 1945; Los Banos, Luzon...

John Nicholas's ship, the USS Gayety (AM-239), participated in submarine chasing in the Pacific. He set the depth...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

Murphy Burke had a lot of respect for the Japanese; he thought they were good soldiers, and did their job with the few...

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