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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...
Lawrence Winnier did not stay in touch with anyone after the war. He has one grandson, three granddaughters, and two...
After joining the Coast Guard [Annotator’s Note: in 1944], Eileen Noll was sent to West Palm Beach [Annotator’s Note:...
In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], Bowdre McDowell went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note:...
Robert Jagers wrote a lot of letters home [Annotator's Note: while aboard the USS LST-351]. He would say things in code...
When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell left the bigger ship that took him overseas, he patrolled mountainous islands and...
On returning to his outfit [Annotator's Note:the 88th Infantry Division] in Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy], Harry...
Jack Dye [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS LSM-232] landed at various islands both during the battles...
Richard H. Kerr was headed towards the Pacific Theater in World War 2 with an LCT [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft,...
[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if, as an American immigrant in the Navy, he was invested in...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Arthur Smith what his first introduction to the war was.] Hard to answer. In...
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...
[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's first combat experience was at...
As Lee O. McKinnon was on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Calvert (APA-32)] that had reached North Africa for an...
Thomas D. Thompson was assigned to PTC-21 [Annotator's Note: unable to verify] in Squadron 15 [Annotator's Note: Motor...
Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...
Alfred Taddeo remembers his first combat action involved strafing and bombing runs against enemy positions on numerous...
Stewart Bass was excited and nervous to fly his first combat mission. He soon calmed down, followed his training and...
Harold Buell and his fellow "Cactus Airforce" pilots searched the Slot for enemy ships. The enemy had Zero [Annotator's...
From the Aleutians, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-746) went back to Hawaii then on to Port Moresby in Papua New...
Vernon Micheel flew his first combat mission off the Hornet [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Bombing Squadron 2 (VB-2...
Having been rescued from his ditched aircraft at the Battle of Midway, Tony Schneider was taken first to Midway Island...
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war of the Japanese and was working as slave laborer on the...
[Annotator's Note: James Allen served in the Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class in the submarine service and was aboard the...
Assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Flasher (SS-249), William Beaman went back to Groton, Connecticut to...
While waiting for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Hutchins (DD-476)] to be commissioned, Mark Brannon learned that he...
June Catherine Elliott Haggerty received messages and sent them upstairs for decoding in the large Dupont office...
When the ship arrived, F. Lincoln Grahlfs went out to sea for ten months. The ship was a patrol craft. After the...
Norman Sterrie thought he would be going home [Annotator's Note: he was a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo plane pilot in...
Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...
Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...
The only thing Phineas Stevens remembers about Corregidor [Annotator's Note: Corregidor Island, Luzon, Philippines] is...
Rollins Rosenzweig was part of the aircraft carrier naval air cover for the invasion of Iwo Jima. [Annotator's Note:...
The USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) joined with another carrier, the USS Kitkun Bay (AVG-71), headed for Leyte in the...
[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

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