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When Childers strapped in he said over the radio that it was his birthday and that he wanted to celebrate.Three of the...

Charles Bruce was 17 years old when he drove a truck for work. He got a ticket for speeding. He had to pay 20 dollars....

The United States was going into Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea] and the Japanese thwarted the...

Delewski had never heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack and never planned to go into the Navy. He graduated high...

When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. served on the Tippecanoe [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)] which was 480 feet long...

James Franklin Young was sent to Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in Beaufort...

At the first prisoner of war camp, Pearson Riddle had to work hauling earth and material in a giant cart. Riddle did...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] When Edwin Sedran landed on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian,...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum had good friends with him aboard the USS Leon (APA-48). Saipan was his first invasion [Annotator's...

Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) accompanied a Task Force that included the USS Franklin (CV-13) offshore of...

The war made James Roland Westbrook a better person. He had not finished high school, so went home to Mississippi and...

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