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Eventually, Bougainville was taken [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at...

Martin Carmody and Les Ward finally joined back up with each other. They had both consumed a lot of fuel during their...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Nick Cristiano has no idea where his Japanese prison guards went when the war ended. A whole new crew came in. The new...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

William Leibold never stopped believing that he would make it home to his wife. The reunion with his wife on his parent...

The next bad thing to happen was when Childers tried to fire at a Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese fighter aircraft],...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Angus Francis Mestayer returned to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They got a month long leave [...

Brian Thacker thought it was unpleasant to receive the Medal of Honor [Annotator's Note: the Medal of Honor is the...

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