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After securing Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], Haney Ambrose [Annotator's Note: with...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

After a narrow escape from a deadly Japanese ambush, and a tragic friendly fire casualty that night, William Garbo and...

James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...

Richard Witaker fought in World War 2 out of a sense of duty to his country. He cannot understand anyone who shirks the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about Nasugbu, Philippines.] They came out of Luzon [...

Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...

When Charles Wesley Borders was not flying, he had some reading material and records. They would also play ball. There...

The Marines on Midway were a little shook up themselves. Just after they landed, a bomber squadron from the Hornet [...

The Saratoga [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3] was getting ready to leave San Diego for Pearl...

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