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Besides the attack from the Japanese scout, Carroll Harris did not have any other combat experiences with the Japanese...

Edward Bruce Jennings contracted malaria [Annotator's Note: disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a...

From Fort Custer, Harold DeForest was sent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia for 13 weeks of basic training. They were on the...

Robert Marich traveled on a Liberty Ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], with the entire...

After his discharge from the Army in August 1945, Richard Hebert, Sr. came home and attended Springhill College in...

The replacement center was just outside of Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], and once he was...

Fred Wesighan and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] left...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

James Billingsley was on the line and he had fired his rifle so much that he could not touch it due to the heat. The...

Vernon Henry Moret recalled a banzai attack on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipain, Northern Mariana Islands]. The...

Matthew Cornelia was born in July 1918 and raised in Rochester, New York. His parents were both born in Ireland. At a...

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