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James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the American officers at Cabanatuan [Annotator's Note:...

Benjamin Hagans did not talk to people about his wartime experience for a long time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

While on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman saw two Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

James N. Rizzo's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Yellin had to fly the next day after he bailed out in the ocean. He notes that the P-40 was a great airplane. There was...

Jacques Brewster Smith's company commander [Annotator's Note: of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] stopped in Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

Philip Schweitzer served as a combat medic with the 11th Airborne Division. Schweitzer was born and raised in Brooklyn...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was born in Elgin, North Dakota in January 1926. His father had a farm, but they moved in 1941 to...

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