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The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

[Annotator’s Note: An air conditioner can be heard turning on and off throughout this clip.] The best thing Harry...

Oran Harris was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was returning from Sunday school when a man called out...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...

James Billingsley encountered quite a bit of Japanese resistance going up Highway 17 [Annotator's Note: now Emilio...

Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

There were a lot of dead people being taken out of the camp [Annotator's Note: Los Baños Internment Camp] and Gwendolyn...

Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

The Battle of the Driniumor River ended in August of 1944 after the Japanese 18th Army had been completely decimated....

Olaf Rose recalled having served under three different skippers on the PT-171 [Annotator's Note: PT-171, Motor Torpedo...

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