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Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

[Annotators Note: Norman Kleiss starts the interview by reading a narrative about the causes that led up to the Pearl...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

The war did not have much of an effect on Walter Jacobs. He has never had a problem talking about it like a lot of guys...

Paul Fair moved on to Japan after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August 1945, officially...

Norman Hatch graduated from high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1938. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Albert Simon was born in February 1920. His parents worked on a farm. He was raised on the farm and worked there until...

Later on [Annotator's Note: in the war] in the atolls on the way to China, the destroyers would go into the lagoons...

Clarence Robert Duff remarked on the times when they interacted with Japanese pilots. Duff remembered they came across...

Dupuy flew air support for the Marines who were landing on Tinian [Annotators Note: July 1944]. The invasion took...

Peter Gallo never got hit, but while he was on Leyte, he contracted malaria. He ran a high fever and was throwing up,...

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