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Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Running low on fuel and torpedoes, John Votrobeck [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Blenny (SS-324)] sailed to Subic...

Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different. Their...

Philip Schweitzer's training was heavy on hiking, running and jogging. When they returned from furlough, some of the...

After the invasion of the Kwajalein Atoll [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, 31 January to 3 February...

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

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

Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

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