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Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: a member of the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit known as the Alamo Scouts]...

Paul Sparacino was ordered aboard the USS Princeton [Annotator's Note: USS Princeton (LPH-5)] as an airdale [Annotator'...

Clifford Albert Hahn landed at Baybay on Leyte Island in the Philippines. He saw MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Glenn Frazier entered a compound after the long Bataan Death March. The marchers were so fatigued that they simply...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. took tests and examinations [Annotator's Note: for entry into aviation training in the United...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

When the grenade blew Quintana off the hill he does not remember if it knocked him unconscious but he does remember...

Following his graduation from Kings Point [Annotator's Note: the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York],...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

James Thomas Jackson [Annotator's Note: arrived in the Philippines after the Japanese surrendered in August 1945,...

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