The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Kenneth Johnsen. Johnsen joined the Army Air Corps in August of 1940. He worked as a clerk and postal inspector for the Army at Scott Field, Illinois. He graduated in August of 1942 from the Flying Sergeant Program. He opted not to be a pilot and immediately transferred to the 426th Army Air Forces Band in Waco, Texas as a trombonist. They were sent to San Marcos and provided music for the marching soldiers, the black soldiers in their compound and the white soldiers in theirs, as they were not integrated at that time. In 1945 they went to Calcutta and New Delhi, India where they played music and concerts for the enlisted men and officers. They also played at the rest and recuperation camps in the Himalaya Mountains. On the troop ship he served guard duty, and he provides details of those experiences. He was discharged in October of 1945.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Sinks. Sink was in the Naval Reserve when called up and then trained at Corpus Christi as a meteorologist. He volunteered for duty in China, arriving Chungking in 1944. Sinks eventually headed into the country to establish a weather station in Fujian Province and train Chinese guerrillas. Sinks shares several anecdotes about his time in China. When the war ended, he went to Shanghai before heading back to the US in November.