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Rowland Elliott Ball was born in January 1924 in Yoakum, Texas. His father worked for the railroad and had many years...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

Edward Bale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1920. He was the only child. His father was in the automobile tire business....

Pedro S. Parra served in the 854th Engineer Aviation Battalion. He was born in Canadian, Texas in October 1922. He had...

John Kelley's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he took part in liberating the Los Baños Prison Camp [...

John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Occasionally, there were some funny things that happened in the prison camp, according to Randall Edwards. The...

Norman Hatch filmed the battle on Tarawa with black and white 35mm film, but most of the rest of his photographers shot...

Charles Wesley Borders was home when the Japanese surrendered. He celebrated for a week. Borders fell in love with...

James Billingsley was in the mountains fighting and going down a gulley [Annotator's Note: in the Philippines]. Machine...

There was one radio station in Corpus Christi [Annotator's Note: Corpus Christi, Texas] at the time Benjamin Albert...

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