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Gilbert, Lawrence Invading Salerno
Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert had come down with malaria while in Sicily. Gilbert recalled the good weather on the...
Marovelli, Robert Invasion of Morotai and the Loss of PT-368
The invasion of Morotai had been building up, and Robert Marovelli's ship joined the convoy going to battle. General...
Dawson, Ruffin Island Hopping
Ruffin Walker Dawson [Annotator's Note: with the 51st Defense Battalion] found out he was going overseas in February...
Delaune, Lawrence Japanese and Filipinos
[Annotator's Note: Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. served on Luzon, Philippines with the 25th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized...
Drucker, Lillian Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Brothers in the Service
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lillian Drucker if she remembers what she was doing when she heard about the...
Balaza, Charles Japanese Attack on the Philippines
Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...
de Jonge, Wim Japanese Coal Mines and Liberation
Wim de Jonge worked in unsafe conditions in the coal mines of Japan. He was there for about a year. That was the...
Waller, Charles Japanese Strike
Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] had his first combat...
Lippman, Robert Joining Merrill’s Marauders
Assigned to the 1st Battalion[Annotator's Note: the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) was known as Merrill's...
Seubert, Herbert Karachi
Herbert L. Seubert [Annotator's Note: in the 1st Ferrying Group,10th Air Force] arrived in Karachi [Annotator's Note:...
Pomroy, Frank Lack of Food and Illnesses on Guadalcanal
Frank Pomroy begins the interview by talking about the living conditions on Guadalcanal. Living conditions were as...
Lents, Robert Lasting Health Effects
After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...
Schilling, Ira Leaving Guadalcanal
On Guadalcanal, Ira Schilling and Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment faced some enemy air raids and naval...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Liberation
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and other internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Skelton, Joy Liberation
Joy Skelton witnessed pamphlets being dropped on her prison camp. They told of the war being over. She always feared...
DeMott, Joseph Liberation and Recovery
Batavia [Annotator's Note: now Jakarta, Indonesia] was the last camp Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war...
Hagans, Benjamin Life as a POW
Benjamin Hagans was sent to the west side of Mindanao [Annotator’s Note: Mindanao, the Philippines]. His job was to...
Steele, Ben Life as a POW
Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...
DeMott, Joseph Life as a Prisoner of War
Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...
Cascio, Roy Life at Port Moresby
Roy Cascio was stationed at Port Moresby, New Guinea. The captain of their squadron was Roy Jones. He was in the 27th...
DeMott, Joseph Life in a Japanese Prison Camp and Blindness
Joseph DeMott and the other prisoners had to count off for role call in Japanese; otherwise they were kicked in the...
Denzler, Edward Life in the Burma Campaign
The terrain was mostly jungle, and Edward Denzler remembers when the enemy ran a herd of wild elephants through the...
Meader, Byron Life on Guadalcanal
Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...
Pribyl, William Life on the Pipeline
Describing an average day, William J. Pribyl explains that he was quartered in tents at a campsite in Tinsukia [...
Landry, Coleen Local Soldiers and Coming Home
There were several bases near Coleen Landry's home in Montz, Louisiana. Camp Plauche [Annotator's Note: also known as...
Marca, Carl Mail Duties in Manila
When the war ended, Carl Marca was in Finschhafen, New Guinea. As a mail censor, he would cut an envelope open on the...
Dendy, Lloyd Malaria in Key West
Lloyd Dendy had been on a ship coming home when the war in Europe ended [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1945] and President...
Gorman, Robert Maneuvers in Louisiana and Texas
After nine months at Camp Gruber, Robert Gorman and the 557th Field Artillery Battalion went to Louisiana for maneuvers...
McGlohon, John Mapping Missions Around the World
In early 1942, John McGlohon's squadron [Annotator's Note: 3rd Photo Mapping Squadron] was assigned a mapping mission...
Balaza, Charles March into Captivity
Charles Balaza and the defenders of Corregidor were taken by troopship to the shores of Manila. They were offloaded a...
Johnson, Erwin Marched to Camp O'Donnell
On 10 April [Annotator's Note: 10 April 1942], Erwin Johnson and his fellow prisoners of war started their march away [...
Weber, Rosemarie Meeting her Husband and Conditions in Santo Thomas
When Rosemarie Weber finished high school, she met a priest named Father John. Father John suggested that she look up...
Wicklund, John Methods of Survival
The 96th Division [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] spent Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] on...
Morse, Ralph Midway and Guadalcanal
Following the Doolittle Raid [Annotator's Note: named for its commander, then US Army Air Forces Colonel, later US Air...
Russell, Richard Missions in the Pacific
Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...
Goodrich, James Mop Up Duties on Guadalcanal
James Goodrich thinks that people had a greater hatred for the Japanese than the Germans in America. He credits hearing...

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