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Lincoln D. Brennan Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was receiving his equipment right before he was sent...

Towards the end of the war, Jack Leaming's prisoner of war camp at Osaka [Annotator's Note: Osaka, Japan] had burned...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Lawrence Winnier in conversation with the interviewer.] Lawrence Winnier was...

In mid 1942, Jack Leaming and approximately 60 other prisoners of war, POWs, were transferred to a camp in Osaka. The...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the military and was able to select the Navy as his service branch. He grew up during the...

During one of his trips back to the United States Alex Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero that had been...

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

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

Lowell Rodrigue was born in June 1924 in Edgard, Louisiana, but was raised in St. Rose, Louisiana. His father worked...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After the war ended...

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