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Gate Tate knew he would be drafted so he volunteered in order to be able to select the branch that he would serve in....

Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

The impression Edward Denzler had of the Japanese soldiers he saw in Burma was that they were mostly young kids. Their...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

In September or October 1944, Robert H. "Bob" Harris left India to return to the United States. He completed 150...

Frank R. Burnside [Annotator's Note: worked ferrying planes as a pilot stateside with the 4th Ferrying Group, and then...

The first place Brooks was taken to was a building. The men were fed once a day by the natives who brought them soup....

After the war, Revis Haslett and his dad bought a grocery store but he wished he had gone to school instead. The store...

Marshall Burnett was born in Meridian, Mississippi in November 1925. He attended Marion Park Elementary School, Kate...

Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota trained at Schofield Barracks [Annotator's Note: in Honolulu, Hawaii] as a member of the 298th...

According to William J. Pribyl, the pipeline that pumped petroleum to China made it to Myitkyina [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Rineer was born in May 1922 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

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