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James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

Frederick Jenkins was in damage control in the machine shop where the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide...

Yellin is not sure if he was fired upon during landings and take offs from Iwo Jima. Yellin recalls that one of his...

James Bollich thinks there were radios in other camps [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camps], but not his. He got...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

Alvin Barnes entered Tokyo Bay [Annotator's Note: Tokyo Bay, Japan] after the war. His ship [Annotator's Note: USS...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

Robert G. Aldous had difficulty transitioning to being a civilian after World War 2. He got home and thought everything...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: was assigned to Headquarters Battery, 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire control...

Gonzales was 10 years old when the Japanese invaded [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippine Islands]. At the time he...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and other internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

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