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Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...

After rejoining his unit [Annotator's Note: 869th Bombardment Squadron, 497th Bombardment Group, 21st Bomber Command,...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...

Harvey Mittleman's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the heavy combat during the first few days on Okinawa [...

Salvador Perino was sent to Memphis, Tennessee to fly Stearmans [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Kaydet or...

Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

It was like a dream, sometimes John Snyder does not know if it [Annotator's Note: the war] happened or not. He tells it...

Elmer Koenig wanted to get out of the Navy, but he did not have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...

Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker] arrived in Pearl Harbor [...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

[Annotator's Note: Person offscreen interjects throughout the interview]. Harold G. Cowart and his unit headed to Maui...

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