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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...

Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] was lousy to Louis J. Armentaro because it was hot. He spent a week there...

John Burr wrote letters to his wife. They would get mail sporadically. They wrote letters and would give them to the...

Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

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

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Oral History