Pearl
Harbor |
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"No animosity toward us at all, not even a dirty look.
They just got out of your way."
Raymond
Albert Brittain's story |
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"Asiatic
sailors are very bitter toward Pearl Harbor for getting caught
so neatly ..."
Donald
Patrick Finn's story
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Corregidor |
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"For all we knew, we were existing in Hell."
Cecil
Jesse Peart 's story
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"I
had tea, and it probably saved my life."
Warren
M. Smith's story
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Bataan
Death March |
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"You just turn your eyes and move on...knowing he's going
to die that night."
Albert
L. Allen Jr.'s story
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"I
went down on that march and two angels picked me up."
William Burton Clark's story |
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"So
there I was, looking down on four Generals and a couple of
bird Colonels, all kneeling on the floor..."
Roy
E. Jolma's story |
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"The
interpreter kept saying it was a Japanese holiday, but there
was no guards."
Romie
C. Gregory's story |
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"If
I’d been caught, I’d probably been killed."
William Orville White's story |
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"The
Japanese commander said... 'If you break our rules, we will
kill you or we will do something worse.'"
Henry John Wilayto's story |
Guadalcanal |
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"So
I dove in under ... and I had about fifteen or twenty people
dove in on top of me."
Arnold
Barker Jr. 's story |
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"Found
where they were at and we had about 10 or 12 grenades apiece,
and we dropped 'em in and really stirred up a real fight."
Warren
Gordon Beavers' story |
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"There
must have been six or eight of us in a two-man foxhole, trying
to get all our bodies below the surface..."
Donald Burrows' story |
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"There
was no opposition. The Japs were caught completely flat-footed."
Robert L. Corwin' story |
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"It
was like an inferno. I couldn't believe it. It was a nightmare."
Jesse W. Dunnagan's story |
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"They
were the stupidest bunch of people I ever saw."
James C. Justice's story |
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"...
they just kept you going from island to island, until you
got wounded or killed."
Leonard Kiesel's story |
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"It's
a strange feeling to see the first enemy plane, really."
Ernest M. Phillips' story |
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"We
were just all in it together. That's the way it ought to be
anyhow."
Raymond A. Seay's story |
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"They
never found any part of that [U.S] patrol, or any parts of
bodies or anything else."
Ned C. Steele's story |
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"When
we picked up the rifles on that little about an acre and a
half, we picked up 1,100 rifles-Japanese rifles."
Raymond Robert Wade's story |
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"My
most memorable moment was the day I died."
William H. Whorf's story |
Japanese
American Internment Camps |
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"The
first thing I think about is I better not move. They might
finish me off."
Norman Saburo Ikari's story |
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"We
had to prove ourselves ... worthy of recognition when we came
back to the States."
Jimmie Kanaya's story |
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"My
father happened to be targeted perhaps because he was not
only a fisherman ... but also because he was a scrap metals
collector..."
Robert Hiroshi Kono's story |
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"From
my point of view, America is a nation in the process of trying
to live up to its dreams."
Warren Michio Tsuneishi's story |