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[Annotator's Note: A different interviewer begins asking Selwyn Gilmore questions about his postwar career.] Selwyn...

Burton Johnson feared that his handling of Japanese POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] would be held against him...

Lloyd Dendy met people from different parts of the country. They had different accents and different ways of doing...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Claude Shannahan joined the 3rd Marines [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division]. He went with the...

Charles Graves Chauncey's first mission was to Truk Island [Annotator's Note: Truk Lagoon or Chuuk Lagoon, Federated...

While they were under tow, a typical day aboard the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop]...

Being Captured

Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

William "Bill" Arthur Pummill and his unit [Annotator's Note: Weapons Company, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division...

James Wilson's platoon leader [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Oral History