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Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Elmer Koenig enlisted on 7 May 1943. He graduated from high school in June 1943. His parents expected him to join. In...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] ran to the...

Returning to his experiences earlier in his Navy career, Lauren Bruner discusses particulars about his first ship, the...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

Sterling Baker was in the National Youth Administration and trained to be a carpenter. He was also in charge of the...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

Jack Glass was interviewed prior to this for a show about the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)]. The...

William Winter was at Fort McClellan for four months, after which they were assigned to Army units. In October 1944, he...

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