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Returning to his memories of the prison camp, Robert Lents said it was about 25 July [Annotator's Note: 25 July 1945]...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

Annotator’s Note: Video and sound are very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

James Warren David remarked how he missed eating fresh eggs, roast beef, gravy, seafood, and cous-cous, and other Cajun...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

Billy Grieves was born in Liberty Center, Ohio. At a young age his parents moved the family to Detroit, Michigan for...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Alfred Taddeo became an instructor at Melbourne, Florida where he met several former VF-10 [Annotator's Note: Fighting...

Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

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