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Trinidad Ledesma volunteered to be a code clerk in headquarters where he thought he would be safer. He was shown a...

During the initial attack Rogers was in the bushes away from the air field and could see them fly over. That was around...

[Annotator’s Note: Comments from others off camera can be heard throughout segment.] Edmund Aziz and his ship [...

William Stewart was set to get discharged. He was considered surplus and could get out six months early. They fought...

Calvin Moore used his G.I. Bill to buy a house and go to school. The G.I. Bill was important to post World War 2...

William Wayne was drafted and went to Fort Leonard Wood in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] for...

When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...

Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

Jack Thornhill was sent to San Diego for boot camp. There were a lot of guys from the Alexandria [Annotator's Note:...

Subic Bay [Annotator's Note: Subic Bay, Philippines] was a nice Naval establishment before it was all lost [Annotator's...

Jack D. Samuelson was assigned with two other officers [Annotator’s Note: he was newly assigned to the USS Louisville (...

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