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

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

In this segment, Joe Clapper reviewed photographs that visually record the history of his platoon [Annotator's Note:...

William Lee Barnes was aboard the Bunker Hill [Annotator's Note: USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)] while his crew mates were...

Wallace Spencer and two others stole a whaleboat after the war. A wooden one. They were in Bremerton, Washington where...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

Harold C. Cook was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania. His father produced milk and ice cream on his dairy farm. Cook...

[Annotator's Note: Andrew Petrus' wife talks about her family offscreen.] Andrew Petrus had a friend who bought a hotel...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. was born in March 1920 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of eight children and was...

Arthur Killam kept up with some of the guys he served with in the US Navy during the war but never went to any of the...

Ira Schilling was born in June 1924 in Saratoga, Texas. His parents separated when he was very young and he moved to...

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