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Carl Beck joined the Army at 17 in November 1942. He was born in 1925. He had been working with his father during the...

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

Gus Gikas was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in April 1921. His dad was the town hat maker. Gikas moved to north Texas when...

[Annotator's Note: Jacklyn Lucas stowed away aboard the USS Deuel (APA-160) on 10 January 1945 for the trip from Pearl...

Morton Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1926. He grew up there, with younger twin siblings, the...

John S. Johnson reveals his thoughts on American POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] during the Korean War who...

Martin Jacobson underwent demolition training at Fort Pierce, Florida. He also learned sneak and peek, or surreptitious...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

Daniel Farley tried to enlist in the Marine Corps but they turned him down. He then went to the Army and they took him...

Lloyd Guillory flew aboard an LB-30 [Annotator's Note: the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator cargo aircraft was a variant of...

Lily Sawada and her family arrived in Poston, Arizona [Annotator’s Note: this was part of the relocation of Japanese-...

Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...

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