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Richard Keller received a Distinguished Service Cross but he does not think he deserved it. While recovering in the...

[Annotator’s Note: chit chat for the first 13 seconds of the interview] Robert Brant was born 10 October 1924 in Denver...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...

Robert Brant and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Naval Construction Battalion] invaded Bougainville [Annotator's Note...

After Guadalcanal, James Gulotta went to Bougainville. They did a lot of heavy fighting on Bougainville. The Marines...

James Oney was scared when bombs were falling [Annotator's Note: during air raids on Stirling Island, Treasury Islands...

Claude Shannahan joined the 3rd Marines [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division]. He went with the...

Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...

Harold DeForest landed in New Caledonia and was sent to a replacement center. There, he and another guy volunteered to...

Paris Tognoli came into Empress Augusta Bay [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Papau New Guinea, 28 December 1943] and...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

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