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Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

Jack Leaming was aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) in November 1941. [Annotator's Note: Leaming served in the Navy as a...

Donald Herbert Shown and the Indianapolis [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] were in the Aleutians at the...

Joseph Conklin LaNier, II was born in Columbus, Mississippi on 25 March 1926. He personally adapted the spelling of his...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

Being Captured

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

After Corregidor fell to the Japanese, Randall Edwards was held there for about a month, during which time the Japanese...

Murphy Burke served in World War 2 because he thought it was the thing an American should do. He feels his experience...

After leaving Italy, John Snyder was transported to another ship in the Pacific because they needed more corpsman out...

Oral History