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A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Cecil Ezell McLain was aboard the battleship [Annotator's Note: USS Tennessee (BB-43)] when it bombarded and took Kiska...

Edwin Lamm was assigned to the Air Transport Command at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base [Annotator's Note: now Travis...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

Albert Simon fought for his country. He was drafted. He fought for the United States flag. He changed from a civilian...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

Leon Williamson grew up in Tecumseh, Michigan. He attended school in the town, then went to Michigan State College [...

James Thomas Jackson was born in July 1926 in Ponchatoula [Annotator's Note: Ponchatoula, Louisiana] with an older...

William Lee Barnes does not remember seeing the island of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], but he does...

Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...

When Rosemarie Weber finished high school, she met a priest named Father John. Father John suggested that she look up...

John Geiger remembers when he was in New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance...

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