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James Bowie was part of the invasion of Guam [Annotator’s Note: The Battle of Guam, Mariana Islands; 21 July to 10...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

After bootcamp, Carrel Reavis was sent to Hawaii, where he stayed for the whole war. All he did was load and unload...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Francis John "Dick" Varone had not spoken much about his wartime experiences until he joined a group of other veterans...

Bryon Oliver boarded a ship in Norfolk, Virginia. Twenty one days after passing through the Panama Canal, Oliver was at...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Charles Martin did not want to be drafted into the Army. He tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet school. He passed...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

John Reeder remained on active duty, and was sent to the Naval Air Station at Mojave, California for a month, then...

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