Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Ricardo R. Rondinelli was sent to Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands and assigned to the 47th Bombardment Squadron,...
Dale Bates flew seven missions as an instructor before the squad was disbanded in October 1944. Bates was then...
After pilot training, Homer Myers got his commission. He went to Tampa, Florida and started his B-17 [Annotator's Note...
On 12 October [Annotator's Note: 12 October 1944], Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a pilot with Fighting...
Harvey Lee Bishop [Annotator’s Note: a North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft pilot in the 457th Fighter Squadron...
George N. Boutwell was born in July 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up with one older brother and a younger sister...
Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] began...
Robert Leroy Shirkey was selected to join the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit] in...
As Stanley Wolczyk departed the United States, he had no idea of his destination. The troops thought that they were...
After Marine Corps boot camp, Arthur McHardy was sent to Seattle, Washington to a Navy yard as an MP [Annotator's Note...
While Kenneth Beard was stationed in Anchorage [Annotator's Note: Anchorage, Alaska] during World War 2, he and some of...
Having survived the sinking of USS Arizona (BB-39) and the subsequent treatment for his burn injuries, Lauren Bruner...
[Annotator's Note: In late January 1943,] Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a third class shipfitter for the 45th...
[Annotator's Note: Alfred Taddeo served in the Navy as a fighter pilot aboard the USS Nassau (CVE-16) in the Aleutian...
Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...
Robert Barnett went to radio training for six weeks and then went to Fort Pierce [Annotator's Note: Fort Pierce,...
William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and the...
On the day American forces arrived [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Albert Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: a Japanese American who went to Japan in 1940] was enrolled in school as a fifth...
Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was born in April 1923 in Visalia, California. During the Great Depression, his father worked for...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says she wants to ask Marthe Cohn some specific questions about the American Spirit...
Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...
There was an interpreter that could speak Japanese [Annotator's Note: in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Nicanor Guzman was commissioned in the field after the Americans returned to the Philippines [Annotator's Note:...
Carrol Smith landed during the invasion of Angaur Island in the Palau island group [Annotator’s Note: the invasion...
Frank Pomroy had decided to go on a third invasion regardless of whether or not he would be sent home. The Marines drew...
Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was at Oceanside, California which is across from...
Robert Jarvis’ regiment [Annotator’s Note: 534th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, 4th Engineer Special Brigade] used...
Marthe Cohn and her whole group went to Quang Tri [Annotator's Note: Quang Tri Province, Vietnam; then French Indochina...
Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...
[Annotator's Note: Chimes can be heard in the background throughout this clip.] Vernon Henry Moret says that being in...
John H. Cole was in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 381st Heavy Weapons [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 381st...
During the 13 months that Richard McEwen was in combat, he described the Japanese activity where he was as a "backup...
When Oran Harris' ship pulled into port in New Guinea, he walked ashore just to say he had been there. But he saw no...
Mahlen Arledge and the 81st Infantry Division were placed on ships that were destined for the island of Angaur. The...

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