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The American flag flies above the rear deck of an aircraft carrier with the Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger onboard and a plane...

Three soldiers rigging P-39 airplane for towing on skids in the Aleutian Islands c. 1943.

Slide. Waves crashing over a reef. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

"File No: W-B-LO-5-54390. Released: November 29, 1943. Attack on Bougainville-- Racing for the shore is a cloud of...

Lt. General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith at 2nd Marine Division Cemetery on Saipan. Official caption:'"Lt....

Sam S. McKeel dropped out of high school at age 16 to enlist in the Navy during World War 2. He knew he was going to...

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior [Annotator's Note...

James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's most memorable experience of the...

Dave Severance joined the Marine Corps in October 1938 at the age of 19. He was on liberty in Los Angeles when he first...

Walter Broll was told by one of the officers on the Grace Abbott that he should go to the English aid station at the...

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