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Noah Lewis was born in March 1925 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He had a normal life growing up. His mother was a house...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

Fiske Hanley talks about the close calls he experienced during his first six missions over the Japanese home islands....

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

Sidney Philips was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up on Georgia Avenue in midtown. Eugene [Annotators Note...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Victor K. Carman wanted to become an electronics engineer. While he was at the Great Lakes Naval Base [Annotator's Note...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Calvin Barrick grew up on a farm. He had four brothers and one sister but two of his brothers have died. Barrick was...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

After completing basic training, Jack H. Bleuler was sent to Texas A...

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