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Robert Liles was awarded a number of decorations. He was awarded the Silver Star for the mission during which he and...

Charles Poston [Annotator's Note: a US Army Air Corps pilot with the 1st Air Commando Group based in Asansol, India]...

For George C. Ward, going through the Suez Canal and through the desert was the most memorable experience of the war....

Crump was lucky making the transition from military to civilian life. He had worked in the shipyards prior to military...

Roy H. Matsumoto infiltrated behind enemy lines at night to listen to their discussions for potential intelligence. [...

Grant Jiro Hirabayashi reunited with his parents in Minnesota where they had relocated after they were released from...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Chris Daley was sent to Los Angeles, California for administrative training for three months. Then he was transferred...

When Masaji Inoshita got to the ceremony [Annotator's Note: a Japanese surrender ceremony in China] he found out that...

In Iraq, John Alison spotted a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] flying overhead. He...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

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