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William Burkett remembers the Philippines as a pretty country. He drove everywhere. He drove a truck to Manila [...

While in India, Grant Jiro Hirabayashi worked as a translator for the British Air Force after being in Burma [Annotator...

Learning of the Japanese surrender was a relief for Don Daniels. He was on a ship off Honolulu [Annotator's Note:...

Leo Denault remembers there was a little town next to them with a geisha district [Annotator’s Note: geisha district,...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Samuel Malta and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division]...

Shigemitsu [Annotator's Note: Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician] and Alfred Dearman interacted quite...

The closest call Thomas Long recalled was the time he was dropping dynamite to repel enemy swimmers whose mission was...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945 at Iwo Jima, Japan], Robert Erskine...

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

While on occupation duty, Louis R. Lepore first stayed on the water front in Sasebo [Annotator's Note: Sasebo, Japan]....

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