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Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

Fred Bronfin reported to Fort Schuyler in New York where he had a two month indoctrination. He was then sent to Norfolk...

On 31 December 1945, Monroe Scherer landed in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan; after leaving occupation duty in...

O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour, assigned to the USS Preston (DD-379), met the fleet in the Pacific [Annotator’s Note:...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the battle of Okinawa, Japan], Harry McKnight was sent back to Guam [Annotator's Note...

Joe G. Casillas was trained as a rifleman in the infantry. He got to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana...

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...

James Goodrich thinks that people had a greater hatred for the Japanese than the Germans in America. He credits hearing...

Jack Linscott remembers that the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ships] were not...

John Smith was out on a patrol miles into enemy territory when he was "relieved of all hazardous duty" and told he was...

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