The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Chelly Mendoza. Mendoza was drafted into the Army in August, 1942. He was attached as a medic to the 1st Cavalry Division. He went overseas in May, 1943 and landed at Oro Bay, New Guinea. Mendoza served as a litter bearer hauling wounded from the battlefield. He drove an ambulance in the Admiralty Islands during the campaign in 1944. In October, Mendoza went to Leyte during the invasion of the Philippines. Mendoza helped liberate the civilian internees from Santo Tomas in Manila, where he was wounded. He returned to the US and was discharged from the Army in December, 1945.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clarence LeMieux. LeMieux was born on 16 December 1916 in Virginia, Minnesota. Graduating from high school in 1934, he joined the US Army Air Corps. He was sent to Chanute Field and enrolled in an engine and airframe training course. Upon graduation he was assigned to a B-10 crew and participated in gunnery and bombing practice. He was later, transferred to a B-17 crew and sent to Townsville, Australia. LeMieux tells of a bombing mission over Rabaul, of attacks by enemy fighters and of a forced landing in a swamp in New Guinea. He relates the harrowing trek out of the swamps and arrival at a native village and of being taken to Buna for travel to Australia. He tells of getting malaria and his return to the US. He received a direct commission from enlisted rank in 1943 and he tells of his various assignments and training he received prior to his retirement in 1965. The B-17 that crashed into the swamp was discovered intact in 1972. Given the name Swamp Ghost, it was reclaimed and taken to Honolulu in 2013.