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Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...

Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

Retracing his steps, Steve McMurray mentioned that on the way back from Iwo Jima he did a lot of pencil portraits of...

Rob Roy Ratliff joined the Marine Corps and trained with some of the Navajo code talkers. He received a ten day leave [...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is outside so there is a lot of background noise throughout the clip.] Everett Pope...

Charles Stix left Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] after the atomic bombs [Annotator’s Note: Nuclear...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

Arthur Pendleton was happy to get off of Cape Gloucester. They were there during the monsoon season. It was a terribly...

Orville Carroll was born in Bend, Oregon in December 1924. He grew up in Sisters, Oregon, graduated from high school...

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