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Nobuo Hayashi remembers when the Americans arrived in their jeeps playing jazz music. He did not trust them at first...

Calvin Moore expected things to be different at home after the war. He went to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine...

Ellis Whaley's training had been in engineering. He was given a transit and laid out roads and a cemetery. He had some...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in 5th Marine Division] had to be responsible for his 30 camera guys [...

While in captivity, Walter Bowsher received few Red Cross packages, and, of those he received, some of them were...

Joseph L. Harrison was born in March 1923 in Live Oak County in George West, Texas. When he was about five years old,...

Myron J. Carraway was born in Idaho [Annotator’s Note: in Jackson, Idaho in March 1922] and grew up there. He graduated...

When William Goldsborough turned 18 in January 1944, he registered for the draft, and was allowed to finish out his...

Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...

After arriving on Pavuvu Island, Romus Burgin and the rest of the 1st Marine Division began training for the invasion...

Wim de Jonge was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] and worked for the Japanese on the railroad through Thailand...

William Smith was dating the sister of a friend, but it did not last long because he went overseas. He really never saw...

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