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Herbert Fontenot joined the Navy because it was the only branch that would accept him at 16 years of age. He loved his...

Wesley John Dochick was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Harold Beal remembers the paratroopers could not do much for them on the beach, but by the end of the day, they were up...

Nicholas J. Zuras headed back out to sea [Annotator's Note: after firing all of the rockets on his rocket boat at Omaha...

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was in the Pacific...

Asked if any of the Nuremberg defendants showed any remorse, Whitney Harris said that in his opinion, the only one who...

Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the landing forces around...

Most people do not remember anything and it [Annotator's Note: World War 2] is foreign to them. Charlie Lomax does not...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer, even though he had no training in this...

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