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Michael Clancey felt anger about the ambushes carried out on American convoys [Annotator's Note: in Vietnam during the...

Norman Mineta, his mother, father, and two sisters moved to Evanston, Illinois rather than living in Chicago where his...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Lydia Grant witnessed the attack on the American facilities at Pearl Harbor firsthand. The Japanese strafed the...

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

Joseph Mittelsdorf was assigned to the 5th Marine Division. He was in the rear echelon for the Battle of Iwo Jima [...

Verna White's first assignment was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego...

Cyril de la Vergne was in the Marine Corps about for two and a half years. It was office work and did not change after...

Rationing was not hard for Jennie Rosenzweig. Oleo was used instead of butter, and it looked like lard. She added salt...

George Mitchell feels he was in an outfit that had always denied them being a part of it, the Marine Corps. He feels he...

The day the war was over is the most memorable for Amelia Taylor. She wanted to serve because her brothers were serving...

Barbara Stables was in Mobile [Annotator’s Note: Mobile, Alabama] with her children visiting her parents when the news...

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