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John Stiles was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] and it was rather primitive. They got water out of...

Jacob Velfling, Jr.'s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was at a farm behind enemy lines. He met two...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Hopkins finished that phase in September 1941. Hopkins was assigned to Bombing Squadron 4 which operated off of the USS...

Clarence Strobel was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 188th Glider Infantry Regiment [Annotator’s Note:...

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

After over a week in combat on a mountain ridge, William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.] They were on...

William Pierce looked at the invasion of Japan as just another battle. His Marine regiment [Annotator's Note: Pierce...

James Patterson trained in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]. His crew was like a family. They...

Frederick Grun was born in March 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. His father was an...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan became a...

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