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Orville Carroll's most memorable experience of World War 2 was going over to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

Given 30 days survivor leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Donald Herbert Shown...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

James Paul Lynch's father worked for a man running for Congress. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Charles Nathan Lane was born in Carryville, Arkansas in June 1919. Lane recalls the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...

Patrick Zilliacus thinks that the variety of odd jobs he held before being drafted helped him in duties on a submarine...

Fiske Hanley II was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas. The Hanley family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, then...

Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...

Jack Werner was born in 1919 in Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His father was a mechanical engineer and...

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