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On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...

While they were under tow, a typical day aboard the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop]...

Walter Groth remembers the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had a great Air Force. Later...

Lincoln Piazzo was recommended for the Medal of Honor for a mission over the most highly fortified area of the Pacific...

After Karen K. Lewis and her parents were liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas...

The news [Annotator's Note: of the atomic bombs being dropped] reached Thomas J. Bostick's unit [Annotator's Note:...

James Gulotta did not have any friends to keep up with after the war. They were all either killed or maimed. His unit [...

Albert Simon was in the Philippines. They stayed in pup tents [Annotator's Note: small sleep tents often shared by two...

Drafted into the Army in 1943, Peter Paret was thrown in with unfamiliar types, and became a fairly solitary man. His...

Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with Harold DeForest talking to the interviewer about his son in law who was...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

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