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As they [Annotator's Note: John Mock and his fellow prisoners of war, or POWs] lay there, the 99th Infantry Division...

Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...

Donald F. Goyette volunteered for Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan] because his plane got shot up, and he...

World War 2 changed Richard Willett's life by making it possible for him to go to college. He learned how to discipline...

Before graduating from high school, Dr. Norman Francis did very little in terms of working in the war effort. He was...

Robert Templet feels that the youth of today may not be as interested in World War 2, or even protecting their liberty...

Bernard Hillenbrand did not have difficulty adjusting to civilian life and never had bad dreams, battlefield fatigue,...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

John Elliott made one more mission after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

Aboard ship, the head [Annotator's Note: naval slang for toilet or bathroom] was full. Nobody showed any fear...

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