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Louis John Walter sailed on the James Fallen [Annotator's Note: unable to verify ship name]. A couple of Walter's...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

[Annotator’s Notes: There is a lot of background noise throughout this segment.] Jack H. Bleuler was born in 1923 and...

Frank Savage completed amphibious training at Hampton Roads, Virginia. To pass the test, the soldiers had to get ashore...

Aloysius "Al" Arend was flown back to his outfit [Annotator's Note: 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] on...

Kenneth Wieland went straight to Japan. He was assigned to the Aviation Engineer battalion [Annotator’s Note: Company A...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

Ray Emory was born in Peoria, Illinois, one of eight children. His father lost his leg during the Great Depression,...

Woods was upset after the war because he wasn't given the benefits of the G.I. Bill. A friend of his his who had been...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was on the airstrip on the second day [...

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