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After Corregidor fell to the Japanese, Randall Edwards was held there for about a month, during which time the Japanese...

David Thomason loved it [Annotator's Note: Navy boot camp] and worked hard. He went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole had been drafted into the US Marine Corps and was on his way to Camp Lejeune, North...

After Hershel Hibbard was discharged from the Navy, he completed high school and went to college for some time on the G...

William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

Keith Kiefer was taught about World War 2 in school. The Russians were framed as a stand-offish ally. There was not a...

James Bollich was on one of the first ships to take prisoners from the Philippines. The Japanese put 2,000 men into a...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was called into personnel one day [Annotator’s Note: Boehm was working toward acceptance as...

John Wesley Tatum left Fiji [Annotator's Note: Fiji, Oceania] to go to Goodenough Island [Annotator's Note: Goodenough...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

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