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Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

Gus Gikas and two other men swam about a mile from the sinking HMT Rhona to the Pioneer [Annotator's Note: USS Pioneer...

Herbert Clyde Saylor [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th...

Gary Tate was born in December 1924 and graduated from high school at 16 years old before the Japanese bombed Pearl...

After Marshall Burnett's induction at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Notes: Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi], he...

By Christmas of 1943, Richard Notebaert was home. His new baby was four months old, and his little family spent two...

Describing an average day, William J. Pribyl explains that he was quartered in tents at a campsite in Tinsukia [...

Perry Garten was drafted and sent to Fort Leavenworth for processing. He was then shipped to Bowman Field near...

Robert Offenbacher went across the Mediterranean Sea. As they neared the island of Crete [Annotator’s Note: Crete,...

Revis Haslett initially wanted to join the Marines but went into the Army Air Forces instead. He was working with a...

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