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[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Frederick Jenkins thought it was hard to get organized. He had a school teacher as his company commander during boot...

Lawrence Brooks followed the war while he was in service. One of the islands he was on had Japanese pillboxes. The...

John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well. Cassidy...

William Burkett was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in November 1925. He had three...

Mort Oman was not aware that a large battle had jut taken place when he arrived in Buna, New Guinea in June 1944. He...

Salvador Perino's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)] was brought to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam...

After completing basic training, Henry Baul was allowed to return home for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized...

Samuel Ukrop [Annotator's Note: while serving with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division...

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: that Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] from Wake Island were marched about five miles to...

Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...

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