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Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was quickly released from the Navy after the war and attended college on the G.I. Bill [...

Wendell Woodall was in the 19th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 19th Bombardment Group] which initially took off from...

Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...

[Annotator's Note: James Goodrich served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gun section leader in the 27th Marine...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Arthur Lee was sent to Seoul, Korea, where the American mission was...

William “Bill” Knapp was part of the Okinawa invasion on Easter morning 1945 [Annotator’s Note: Knapp was a coxswain on...

Surviving a Storm

James Warren David believed that World War 2 was a patriotic war and people were very positive at the time. The war...

Harry Walker Wellford felt queasy much of the time on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)]. He often...

Yellin is not sure if he was fired upon during landings and take offs from Iwo Jima. Yellin recalls that one of his...

The US Navy had planes ready to help out at Wake Island but the admiral in charge figured that it was going to be too...

John Singlaub was trained by the British Special Forces. Some of the training included assuming an artificial...

Oral History