What are the best first person accounts of American fighting in WW2 ?

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18. another good film although again it is not about Americans but, instead focuses on British POWs

in Japan ... is The Railway Man with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. Some scenes very hard to watch for me.

The Railway Man (2013)
116 min - Biography | Drama - 23 May 2014 (USA)

A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.

Storyline
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered, left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later, he met Patti, a beautiful woman, on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of his demons. Discovering that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive, she faced a terrible decision. Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor? Would she stand by him, whatever he did?

more at link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058107/?ref_=nv_sr_1