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Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

David Hanning believes he was lucky that his service happened during a meaningful and necessary requirement. He...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Fred Gemmel already in conversation with the interviewer.] Gemmel arrived...

O'Callahan [Annotator's Note: Medal of Honor recipient US Navy Captain Joseph T. O'Callahan] was all over the place. He...

Robert M. Solomon remembers that it was very hot during monsoon season. [Annotator’s Note: He was stationed on...

From there [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] they returned to Pearl Harbor. There, James Allen joined the Silversides [...

Norman Hatch does not think of his experiences on Tarawa or Iwo Jima continuously. Rather, his experiences flood back...

Toward the end of the World War 2, Alfred Raymond Mosher was put on a train and sent to another camp [Annotator's Note...

James Wilson landed in Wellington, New Zealand [Annotator's Note: on 11 July 1942] and it was cold and raining. They [...

Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...

Frederick Jenkins thinks the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

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