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Louis Block knew they were going overseas, but they did not know where. The plane before them went to Guam. When they...

Noah Lewis thinks the white servicemen were promoted to better positions than their black counterparts. He knows in the...

Paul Sartori Jr. was proud of serving in the Navy. He felt good about doing something for his country. He served with...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Remi Kidder was born in 1926 in Arnaudville, Louisiana. Raised on a farm, Kidder's father was always busy with the...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Robert Swan and the other officers in his squadron, Patrol Squadron 44 or VP-44, did everything underground while they...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). The...

Norman Sterrie thought he would be going home [Annotator's Note: he was a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo plane pilot in...

[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] At the end of World War 2, Hall...

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