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As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the sound does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

After leaving the scene of the USS Laffey (DD-724) and before reaching his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Shamrock Bay...

[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...

James Bollich's younger brother never made it overseas. One brother died in a fighter pilot accident and the other died...

In 1953 Thomas Crosby enlisted in the Navy. He was competing as a diver for the University of Hawaii and attending...

Remi Kidder was sent to San Diego, California for his basic training. He was used to hard work and discipline so that...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

John Elliott made one more mission after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Claire Maddox does not feel the country [Annotator's Note: the United States] has any idea what the veterans went...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

Richard Witaker fought in World War 2 out of a sense of duty to his country. He cannot understand anyone who shirks the...

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