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When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

In March 1944, at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Charles Chatterton was assigned to the USS LCI(L)-334 [Annotator'...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...

William “Bill” Knapp volunteered for the US Navy when he was 17 years old. His parents consented to his enlistment....

Delewski took part in the Normandy operation. That was the first time the Laffey saw action. He was put in charge of...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Dale LeBlanc was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up like most every other American boy during the depression....

Rufus Harris and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Miami (CL-89)] would stop at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi...

World War 2 changed Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior's life by making him aware of America's significance in this...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert "Al" Machaud is not sure of the unit he...

Austin H. Kiplinger and his unit [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 66 (VC-66) flying from USS Nassau (CVE-16)] went...

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