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When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

Edward Bale and his tanks loaded into LCMs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft, Mechanized] and then into an LSD [...

Robert Dickinson's training took place on one of the old S-boats. [Annotator's Note: The United States' S-class...

Troops were leaving Mortai [Annotator's Note: Maluku Islands, Dutch East Indies now Indonesia] to invade the...

Charles Watkins Adair was born in Dora, Alabama in 1923. His family moved a lot during the Great Depression [Annotator'...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]...

Selwyn Gilmore fit back in when he got home. He did not go to work right away. He regrets not going to college when it...

Harold Buell and his fellow "Cactus Airforce" pilots searched the Slot for enemy ships. The enemy had Zero [Annotator's...

Jimmie Dyer enlisted to fight in World War 2 because he thought that the country needed to fight. He never questioned...

Lincoln Piazzo was recommended for the Medal of Honor for a mission over the most highly fortified area of the Pacific...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this clip.] William Ward Crawford returned to...

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