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Jack Dye was still in the Navy when the war was over. They took their load of fuel to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

Bruce McCormick had the opportunity to go to Little Creek [Annotator's Note: now Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek...

Jack Leaming graduated from radio school on the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] as part of K...

George Joseph Bertucci went to San Diego, California for basic training. After three weeks, he went aboard the USS...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson was born in April 1925 in Taft...

Earl Wergin's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was killed. He fought because he felt there...

Louis Conter started 7 December 1941 aboard USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor. It was his practice to substitute for...

F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

Eugene Tarrant went to join the military when he was 18. He was in good shape, about 175 pounds. A sergeant asked him...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

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