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When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

James Ramage and other pilots were ready to go [Annotator's Note: Ramage is talking about attacking Japanese aircraft...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Walter Groth landed in Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines]. He saw General MacArthur [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served in the Navy as an Electrician’s Mate aboard USS Midway (CVE-63), renamed USS...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Frank Campisano was told he would be invading an island and boarded a ship the Monday before Easter [Annotator's Note:...

Gerald Wayne Lux joined the service to give the Japanese what they had coming to them after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: This interview clip begins with a tape break then starts midsentence.] George Colburn did not go...

When Anna McCalla Noren arrived on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] on 3 August 1945 with...

During Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine's early days in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe was there [Annotator's Note: on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu] for two or three months before...

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