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Frederick Ellis was born in Amite, Louisiana in October 1924. His father's business failed in the Great Depression and...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Dye what his reaction to the news of the atomic bombs being dropped on...

Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke was born in November 1925 in Wellington, Kansas and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. His father had...

Glen Kuskie had just made it to shore after surviving a Hell ship that was sunk by the Americans. [Annotator's Note:...

James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...

In January 1944, Philip Nelson was training on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in San Diego [Annotator’s...

James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...

Arthur Pendleton never claimed his injuries. The system is incredibly wrong. It can be different. Pendleton did ask for...

Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

William Pierce was in Parris Island boot camp for eight weeks. He did what he was told and experienced the rigors of...

Lloyd Guillory's most notable recollection of the war occurred on the day when he thought he was going to die. His...

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