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[Annotator’s Note: Talking and other noises are audible in the background through this segment.] Leander Bubrig’s most...

By the time Harold Whitaker made his first voyage carrying grain to North Africa the war in Europe was over so there...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...

When the Battle of the Tenaru River ended, Lieutenant Port recommended Frank Stewart for the Navy Cross but the captain...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

Floyd James Reissig arrived at the Harry Lee [Annotator's Note: USS Harry Lee (APA-10)] a week and a half before he...

John Caudle returned to work at the company he worked at before the war. It was a department store. He then went into a...

William Wayne says Bradley [Annotator's Note: US Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John Henry Bradley, known as “Jack”...

David Fisher reported for active duty on 23 December 1943 at Camp Beauregard [Annotator's Note: in Pineville, Louisiana...

When Gravois landed on Saipan they were being shelled. Gravois lost 2 men when they landed. They were put into the line...

Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...

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