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Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

Wilbur Rogers' ship [Annotator's Note: USS Foote (DD-511)] and crew were preparing for the invasion of Japan, but the...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Malcolm Louis Holleman returned to...

After getting back to the United States [Annotator’s Note: after surviving the sinking of the USS Preston (DD-379) in...

Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert Machaud's most memorable experience of...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] only had black sand in the southern part of the island. Iwo Jima means...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

Stanley Fagerstrom left New Guinea on 15 November 1944. The Japanese came across the Pacific in the beginning. They...

Lloyd Dendy thinks that they shot several [Annotator's Note: Japanese] aircraft down while on Woodlark Island. There...

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