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When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

Kenneth Wieland does not remember too much about his basic training but recalls there was a lot of marching and time on...

Glenn Frazier was selected for the Tayabas road detail in the Tayabas area of southeast Luzon [Annotator's Note: in the...

Astley Blackwell, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1925. During the depression his family lived with his...

Nobuo Hayashi was born in April 1932 and was raised in Nishinomiya, Japan. Growing up in his early youth, he remembered...

Lionel Lopez and his wife had four children. [Annotator’s Note: Lopez talks about his children and grandchildren.]...

Mark Maynard [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] sailed from Pearl Harbor to Midway to top off fuel...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

Samuel Tso changed his age to join the Marine Corps. He was 18 years old at the time and could not find a job. He went...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

The weight of Donald Campbell's job was such that he rarely had off-duty time. He was responsible for the division's...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

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