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

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Irwin Schneider learned how to obtain needed ammunition and how to safely load added weapons and ammo on a PT boat. He...

Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

On their approach, Steve McMurray had heard that the landings on Iwo Jima were not going well. The scenes on the...

James Shelton Scales was a battalion commander [Annotator's Note: of 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Arles E. Cole was born in Porum, Oklahoma in December 1923. He grew up there. His childhood was rough. It was the...

Sterling Cale was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1921. Shortly after birth, he went into an orphanage for four years....

Kenneth Wieland does not remember too much about his basic training but recalls there was a lot of marching and time on...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Edgar Cole went to communications school and finished at the head of his class. He was automatically assigned to...

Jacques Brewster Smith [Annotator's Note: with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] boarded a...

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