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Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] began...

Once he was back in the United States, Richard Jaccarino traveled by train, dropping off soldiers and train cars all...

Raymond Birdsall was born in Lockport, Louisiana. In 1941, he went over to the high school because they did not have a...

William Lutz remembers the battles on Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines] were not bad. One man got out of...

Attack on 23 October 1944

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

Morris Semiatin [Annotator's Note: wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 February to 26 March 1945, while...

Wanda Damberg’s wounded friend [Annotator’s Note: shot during the liberation of Los Baños] survived and went on to...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

The Americal [Annotator's Note: the US Army Americal Division] came in in October [Annotator's Note: October 1942] and...

Only one of the fire bombing raids Lisle Neher flew was to Tokyo. The others were to other big cities. Each raid killed...

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