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Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Caroline Bailey Pratt was born in June 1932 in Manila, the Philippines. Her father worked for the National Bank and...

William Lutz went into a cave on Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April...

Harold Ward remembers that it was quiet after they secured from general quarters. Around three in the afternoon they...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

lroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] built...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January to 3 February 1944] D-Day [Annotator's Note: military...

Barbara Butler was born in Syracuse, New York in 1921. Her father was a salesman so they moved around a lot when she...

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