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Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January to 3 February 1944] D-Day [Annotator's Note: military...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

Clayton Hall's most memorable experience of the war is fighting and wondering what he would be doing if he ever got out...

Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...

[Annotator's Note: Sumner Whitten served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator dive bomber with Marine...

Thomas Edward Pugh did not know the Bloemfontein brought American volunteers to China. He did not have duty on this...

World War 2 changed Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior's life by making him aware of America's significance in this...

On 13 January 1944, Steve McMurray left on a troop transport ship and was amazed at the clear blue water of the Pacific...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

Samuel Tso changed his age to join the Marine Corps. He was 18 years old at the time and could not find a job. He went...

Jimmie Dyer went from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. All of their equipment was on the deck of the ship and it rained the...

Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they...

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