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On the troop ship out of Pearl Harbor, Holly Rees said there was little to do, and the soldiers played cards and got...

Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

After he graduated from school in 1941, Frank M. Heuer Sr. went to work for Higgins Industries [Annotator’s Note: in...

Oran Harris did not know the exact nature of his mission on Palawan Island until he reached the prison. A Navy ship in...

Delewski took part in the Normandy operation. That was the first time the Laffey saw action. He was put in charge of...

John Caudle has had a lot of thoughts over the years. Especially when he came home out of the service and did not have...

Samuel Ukrop was not changed a bit by the war. He had no bad dreams of combat although some of his dreams are realistic...

To William Lansford, all campaigns had goofy things happen. The first time he went out by himself he had been warned of...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...

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