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Lloyd Guillory returned to the United States on a Matson cruise ship. There were 800 officers and nurses as passengers...

Kenneth Wieland's most memorable experience of the war was coming home. He had served because all the other guys his...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

Windom Joseph Burton was an aviation metalsmith 1st class when he was discharged. He might have received a promotion to...

James Gulotta landed in the Philippines on Leyte on the Ormoc Peninsula. This is where he did most of his fighting....

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior was born in Scott...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...

Walter Jacobs thought the BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] was a good weapon but required a lot of...

Homer Myers flew the T-17 Stearman [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet primary trainer aircraft] in...

The invasion of Attu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Attu, Alaska, 11 to 30 May 1943] was made with fresh troops from the...

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