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Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...

In addition to his weapon, Philip Schweitzer carried two pouches. Because of his rank as a sergeant, Schweitzer carried...

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

Yellin went to witness the ceremony in 2006. He met a few different Japanese soldiers and American military personnel...

The officers would "talk a lot about things," Donald Campbell says, it was a furious campaign [Annotator's Note: the...

Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

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

Walter Groth landed in Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines]. He saw General MacArthur [Annotator's Note:...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

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

Richard Miralles accepted everything that came to him because he knew he could not change it. They did not talk about...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

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