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Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Joseph Richard feels that the war means more now to the younger generation than it did after he left it. He meets kids...

Robert Swift was born in August 1925. He grew up on a farm without electricity. Everything was horse drawn. The farm...

C. Charles Collie received a commission as an ensign in the Navy and assignment to a ship [Annotator's Note: the...

Darold Rice was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1925. During the Great Depression, Darold’s father worked in the Chevrolet...

Clarence Schilperoot took a train ride from his point of enlistment in Seattle to San Diego. He was awed in seeing the...

Dean Whittaker was born in March 1925 in Los Angeles, California. He was the second oldest of five children and his...

Jimmy Doi was born in Oxnard, California in 1925. Growing up in California was great until the war started. Doi was 16...

Boot camp for Louis Smith took place at Parris Island, South Carolina and he found it tough. They shaved his head to...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

Shiyuza Hayashi is Japanese-American. He was born in America and did not know what Japan was like. His parents had...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

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