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Tognoli, Paris Closing Thoughts
Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...
Kerchum, Paul War's End
Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese, was forced to work in the Mitsubishi mine number 11 [Annotator’s Note: in...
Deen, Braswell Segment 6
The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....
Salerno, James Leaving the Military
During the war James Salerno did not like the Japanese and had nothing nice to say about them. The Japanese soldiers...
Hammer, Richard Life aboard Ship
Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. had a good life aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)]. He had multiple...
Singlaub, John Training with the OSS and SOE
John Singlaub trained with the OSS following his completion of paratrooper and demolition training at Fort Benning,...
Sherbecoe, Martin Joining the Navy and Military Training
Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....
Charles, Howard Postwar
Following his liberation [Annotator's Note: from a Japanese prisoner of war camp], Howard Robert Charles arrived by air...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 6
Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...
Lansford, William Training with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion
William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...
Ball, Rowland Flight Missions
Rowland Elliott Ball served as a navigator with the 60th Bombardment Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force...
Rackham, Milton Combat in the South Pacific
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

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