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John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

Gerry Jones was painting radio towers in California when he heard the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Bill Toledo was sent to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp. He was able to keep up with...

Carrol Smith did occupation duty in Nagasaki, Japan. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. arrived on Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] and was met by a...

David Heath missed his military friends. He does not think he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However,...

The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...

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

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Chuck feels that a lot of veterans have embellished their prisoner of war experience. He felt as if it was not that bad...

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