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While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], Victor Yost helped clean the ship. When at sea, Yost...

William Sturman's battalion was in Inchon [Annotator's Note: Inch'ŏn, Korea]. His skipper [Annotator's Note: nickname...

They were on General's Quarters [Annotator's Note: ready for battle] for 72 hours. The guys would take turns on their...

After the invasion of Guam [Annotator's Note: the Battle of Guam, 21 July to 10 August 1944; Guam, Mariana Islands],...

Dale Peterson volunteered for the Navy and was sent for training at the Farragut Naval Training Center in Idaho. He...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was born in...

William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...

Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

[Annotator's Note: Horace Trahan served in the Navy on occupation duty outside of Tokyo, Japan.] He stayed aboard ship...

Norman Kleiss could not see if the bombs from the next two planes hit. When he made his run, he lined up on the big red...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...

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