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James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was divided into a group sent to a camp that overlooked a...

Crump got to Panteloria and was alongside the dock. All of the German prisoners of war did the work. They were younger...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Ellis Whaley was discharged as a Staff Sergeant. He did not sign up for Reserve time and it was not offered. He wanted...

James D. Comeaux’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was watching the massacre of U.S. troops on Okinawa [...

William O’Brien was the second officer to the skipper. They had a cook, a quartermaster, three machinist mates, three...

John Reeder was unhappy with the way the reserve officers were being treated; he had overheard his commanding officer...

Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...

As they moved into Germany, Chris Carawan remembered one battle when a man was shot and fell across the top of his...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

Earl Dean Browning had one day where the 25th Division [Annotator's Note: 25th Infantry Division] had a parade in Kyoto...

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