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Reeder, John Flight Training and Deploying to the Pacific
Arriving at Corpus Christi, Texas, John Reeder underwent "primary training," which was made difficult by some of the...
Block, Louis Service Overview
Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...
Zilliacus, Patrick First Combat Patrol
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...
Strobel, Clarence Combat Stories
Clarence Strobel’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was serving in the honor guard for General MacArthur [...
Hill, Rawley Breakdown in the Pacific
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout this segment.] After a long wait, Rawley R....
Tyler, Kermit Segment 4
A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the...
Jackson, Arthur From the Marine Corps to the Army and Back Again
Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....
Carroll, Wesley Message for Future Generations
The message Wesley Carroll has for future generations is to mind their momma and their daddy. And, he says, mommas and...
McGovern, Robert Prewar and Occupation Duty in the Pacific
Robert E. McGovern was born in October 1926 in Flint, Michigan. His parents were from Lebanon, Pennsylvania and his...
Linscott, Jack Entrance into Service
Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...
Oman, Mort Searching for Prisoners
Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller] took part in the...
Weber, Ed Entrance Into the Service and Postwar
Ed Weber went into the service on 5 December 1942 and went to the San Diego Marine Corps base [Annotator's Note: Marine...

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