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Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was born in 1923 in Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: Queens is one of the five boroughs in New...

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

On 1 April 1945, James Stewart Rosenbaum, and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th...

Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Dupuy recalls a certain sense of invincibility that stayed with him. He knew death was around every corner but he kept...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were with Admiral Spruance [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Raymond...

William Winter was born in 1923 in Grenada County, Mississippi. He came up during the depression on a cotton and cattle...

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