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Roger Shaw was born in New Orleans in 1921. He grew up and was educated in New Orleans. After graduating high school,...

William Earl Gast was assigned to the 743rd Tank Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 1st...

The veterans felt better having other veterans around. When replacements came in Robert Akins knew that they were well...

Arriving at Corpus Christi, Texas, John Reeder underwent "primary training," which was made difficult by some of the...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Robert Marich was born in January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 16, his family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. A...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Thomas Kolesa to talk about the radar he worked with.] Antiaircraft artillery...

James Francis McCorriston was happy to be aboard a fighting ship like the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). The first place...

Sterling Cale was assigned to the 1st Marine Division right after Pearl Harbor. He did not have a proper Marine uniform...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

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