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Towards the end of the war, Jack Leaming's prisoner of war camp at Osaka [Annotator's Note: Osaka, Japan] had burned...

Paul J. Murphy reached Samar [Annotator’s Note: Samar Island in the Philippines] and a hospital that was newly built in...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

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

Ray Eshelman had been on USS LST-925 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts, before reporting aboard USS...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

After basic training, Aristide "A.D." Durio was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland [Annotator's Note: Fort George G. Meade in...

Melvin C. Whitman had to figure out how to work with the Army when he landed on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Clyde Barnhart was born in July 1923 in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He served in the Army Air Corps [Annotator's Note...

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

Garland Bath boarded a transport and went to either Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] or Guam...

Lepla took off with the strike group on the morning of the Battle of Santa Cruz [Annotator's Note: 26 October 1942]....

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