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Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was very confused after visiting his family in an internment camp but returned to Fort Snelling...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Lawrence Eustis was on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when he heard about VE-Day [...

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a flying instructor with the US Army Air Forces] was sent to school to...

Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

John Alison’s duties also resulted in him being a glider pilot despite never having flown one before. He flew a glider...

The war did not change Raymond Kaiser a bit. He felt like he was doing his job. He was in [Annotator's Note: in the...

Roy Uthes arrived in Myitkyinā without any combat experience. His unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer...

During his time in the China-Burma-India Campaign, John Hever rarely had contact with the local adults; but he did...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

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