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William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

Wanda Damberg’s wounded friend [Annotator’s Note: shot during the liberation of Los Baños] survived and went on to...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...

Vernon Micheel flew his first combat mission off the Hornet [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Bombing Squadron 2 (VB-2...

Peter Hebert served on Manicani Island [Annotator’s Note: Manicani Island, Leyte, the Philippines] after the war where...

Rosemarie Weber was born in Saint Paul's Catholic Hospital in the Intramuros, the walled city in Manila, in the...

Vaughn Whitworth did not decide to fight in World War 2, he was inducted. He felt it was his duty to go along. He did...

Glenn Frazier was transferred to Tanagawa. The Japanese were digging into a mountain to create a dry-dock. The overhead...

Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...

David Lansou [Assigned to the 5th Joint Assault Signal Battalion, 5th Marine Division] made an invasion on Iwo Jima [...

Claude Shannahan left Tulagi and boarded the USS Colhoun (APD-2) on the way to Guadalcanal. They had just gotten into...

John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: an American prisoner of war] and hundreds of other POWs were transferred from O'...

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