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Skaggs, Jack Early Life
Jack Skaggs was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1922. He grew up during the Great Depression. His father was a truck driver...
Chatterton, Charles New Guinea to the Philippines
[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...
Bourgeois, Emiline Reflections
It is important to study World War 2. Being a nurse in the Army is a nice thing to do for Emiline Ann Bourgeois [...
Harris, Rufus Postwar and Thoughts on Enemies
Rufus Harris went to Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for one day. On his last trip, he had just gotten married...
Machaud, Albert Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert "Al" Machaud was born in November 1928...
Pugh, Thomas Returning Home
Thomas Edward Pugh made it to Washington the day Germany surrendered [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...
Caraway, John Kamikaze Attack off Okinawa
A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...
Sherbecoe, Martin Joining the Navy and Military Training
Martin Sherbecoe remembered that the curfew on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was very strict....
Curley, Walter Surrender of Japan and Occupation in China
Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 3rd Amphibious Corps] returned to Guam [Annotator's...
Baker, Sterling The Pacific and Discharge
Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...
Jaccarino, Richard Early Life and Entry into the Service
Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...
Witaker, Richard "Dick" Saving the Life of an Officer
Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

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