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Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...

Harold Ward has never seen any history on what happened to the Helena [Annotators Note: USS Helena (CL-50)], the...

John Geiger was born in Newark, New Jersey in April 1923. He had two sisters. His father was a contractor for trucking...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. left a situation where he was tasked with destroying everything and went home to a place...

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...

Hugh Ettinger was born in May 1926 in Watertown, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer, and they lived on...

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

Jerome Paul DiFulco landed at Munda in New Georgia [Annotator's Note: New Georgia, Solomon Islands with Company A,...

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

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