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Charles "Chuck" Wisher went through basic training at Sheppard Field in Wichita, Texas. Training was good, but tough....

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

Willis Mills was attending Hayward High [Annotator’s Note: Hayward High School in Hayward, California] when he decided...

The 96th Division [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] spent Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] on...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...

Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Frank Pomroy begins the interview by talking about the living conditions on Guadalcanal. Living conditions were as...

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