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Kawamoto, Yukio Watching a Battle and Reading Enemy Diaries
Yukio Kawamoto was able to witness the battle [Annotator's Note: the battle of Hill 700 on Bougainville].
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Kaylor, Emmett Culture Shock, Pearl Harbor and Dysentery
Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different.
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Kaylor, Emmett Fighting in the Philippines, Liberating Los Banos and Occupation Duty
That was as close as Emmett Kaylor ever came to getting hit [Annotator's Note: during a Japanese attack in the Philippines].
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Kaylor, Emmett From Highspire, Pennsylvania to Luzon
Emmett Kaylor was born in Highspire, Pennsylvania. He went to school from kindergarten to 12th grade was in the same building.
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Kaylor, Emmett Going Home, Joining the Airborne and Pre-Deployment Training
It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war].
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Kaylor, Emmett Los Banos, Going Home and Postwar Life
[Annotator's Note: Emmett Keylor served in the Army as a fuze setter on a 105mm gun crew in the 472nd Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, 11th
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Kaylor, Emmett Reflections
Emmett Kaylor was only about 500 yards away from the Japanese. They were so hungry that they ate despite the smells.
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Kays, George Battle of the Bulge
George Kays carried a 45 [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber M1911 semi-automatic pistol] and an M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-aut
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Kays, George England to Normandy
George Kays was with the 136th Field Artillery [Annotator’s Note: 136th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] when he heard on the radi
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Kays, George Entrance into Service
George Kays was born in July 1915 on a farm outside of Cambridge, Ohio. He went to school in a two-room school.
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Kays, George Reflections
George Kays remembers they could see a battalion coming toward them in France. He was in charge of the forward command.
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Kays, George Returning Home
George Kays had completed five years of service and had a wife and child at home. He was sent a telegram in Germany when his son was born.