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Sumner Whitten received orders to return to Ewa [Annotator's Note: following the Battle of Midway]. He got aboard a B-...

Robert Templet served on the USS Roxanne (AKA-37) after serving on Maui. The Roxanne would bring supplies to the troops...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

Norman Sterrie thought he would be going home [Annotator's Note: he was a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo plane pilot in...

David McKinley Blackwell never saw combat during his deployment. His unit [Annotator's Note: 30th Evacuation Hospital]...

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

Wiley discussed how the natives found a large canoe that they could use. They filled the holes in the canoe with sap...

Richard Lafleur was not assigned to a unit after training. He knew he was going to be in the 1st Cavalry Division....

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] labored at a Japanese port with an American prisoner named...

Leonard Brooks was born in the Philippines in 1924. His parents had gone to the Philippines in 1922 as missionaries and...

After completing basic training, Henry Baul was allowed to return home for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized...

In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Everett Hyland did hear rumors of going to war. When out on their two weeks at sea, and at...

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