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Meda Royce Hall attended Aviation Ordnance School in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia], and graduated in...

[Annotator’s Note: Someone is coughing in the background throughout this segment.] Willie D. Knippers was born in Pike...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

After spending months trying to kill Japanese, Oran Harris now had to live with them. He felt sorry for the civilians,...

Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...

[Annotator's Note: Marvin Tyson served in the Navy aboard the USS LSM-270, the lead landing ship, for the invasion of...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

[Annotator’s Note: Speaking is audible in the background through this segment.] In February 1945, Leander Bubrig [...

Donald Dean went to Farragut, Idaho for boot camp then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for fire control school where he...

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