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Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Kenneth F. Thomas had returned to the United States to train for the invasion of Japan, then he was put on a ship...

When Edward Chinnis reported aboard the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Dorchester (APB-46)], there was a third class...

Basic training was not too bad for Leslie B. Mason, Junior. His dad was an athletic director, so he was used to doing...

[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...

James Marks was on a carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-18)] that went up through Japan and China with the...

Daniel J. Lawler went into Peking, China [Annotator's Note: modern day Beijing, China] after Okinawa [Annotator's Note...

When the war ended, Wallace McKay was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], where he worked in a beach...

James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Under the influence of his sister who was a nurse, Walter Oka was thinking of studying to become a laboratory...

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