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Frederick Stent was born in August 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina. He did a lot of traveling around the large...

Hugh Wingo was stationed in Galveston [Annotator’s Note: Galveston, Texas] for three or four months. They got the news...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

Robert Templet took his boot camp training in San Diego. The days started early for him. During his first week in...

James J. Hill was with 12 others [Annotator's Note: of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 (VMF-214)] over Rabaul [Annotator's...

Charles Dragich was on a “hell ship” [Annotator’s Note: unmarked Japanese ships used to transport Allied prisoners of...

[Annotator’s Note: Outside noises can be heard throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was a Captain in the Navy and...

Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...

Adolph Wilson and his battalion of the Marine Paratroopers arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia. They had been preceded by...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

Charles Graves Chauncey bought a lot of souvenirs and alcohol while in Cuba. They returned to McCook, Nebraska and...

Asked how he got a Japanese flag, Holly Rees said that nearly every enemy soldier carried one folded up on top of the...

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