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Nevin Sledge was born in Alva, Mississippi in February 1921. His father was a farmer. They moved to the Mississippi...

Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...

Norman Hatch departed Tarawa after the battle concluded and went to Hawaii with the 8th Marine Regiment. The US Army...

After his discharge, Harry Walker Wellford used the G.I. Bill to further his education. He owes a debt to the...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Anna McCalla Noren was born in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1921. She grew up on a farm with her parents and four siblings...

Billy Grieves talks about the eulogies he gives for friends who have passed away. He has officiated a number of...

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

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

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

From Fort Custer, Harold DeForest was sent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia for 13 weeks of basic training. They were on the...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm graduated from high school and turned 18, but had no thoughts about going to college or...

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