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Herman Yates was asked to go on reconnaissance with an officer and a driver to a little town where some Americans were...

Mason Dorsey's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the day he got knocked out by a German Panzerfaust [...

Barbara Pathe got her assignment from headquarters in Dijon. Her assignment was to join the 45th Infantry Division....

Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated...

Eva Nathanson knew the first director of the Holocaust Museum [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust]...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga graduated from high school and went to work soon afterwards. It was not long before the draft came...

Robert "Bob" Lowry was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1926. He had three...

Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...

When the war started, there was mass hysteria against anything Japanese. Terry Shima and others were treated like...

[Annotator’s Note: Background noise can be heard throughout this segment.] Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to...

Alois Kopp was in the water for nine hours before being picked up by Japanese [Annotator’s Note: After his ship, the...

Irving Miller joined the Army in November 1943. Prior to that, he had been in the New York National Guard. He trained...

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