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After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

Ben Ray Bost's most memorable experiences of the war are his two combat landings at Ormoc [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Fred Bronfin reported to Fort Schuyler in New York where he had a two month indoctrination. He was then sent to Norfolk...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Sometimes when the PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] that Olaf Rose served on [Annotator's Note: PT-171,...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Donald Hoff already in conversation with the interviewer.] Hoff [Annotator...

The fighters rendezvoused with the SBDs [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD "Dauntless" dive bomber], then had to look after...

Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands]. When he was in Leyte [...

Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

Captain Murray [Annotators Note: Captain Stuart S. Murray] was the captain on the USS Missouri. Starnes and Murray got...

On 16 April [Annotator's Note: 16 April 1945], the Third Fleet was off the coast of Japan and sent planes out to hit...

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