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In the 1930s, Thomas E. Warne was living at the Del Monte Plantation in the Philippines because his father was the...

Richard R. Ruess was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1918. His parents had two daughters that were killed in...

Wallace Spencer remembers when they were under attack. All the guns were firing. The crew was sitting there watching...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: Shown had become a crewman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in 1939] headed...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

The first time Mort Oman experienced enemy fire was in the Philippines when the Japanese fired upon him, and he did not...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Smith where he was when he heard the news of the atomic bombs being...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

David Harvey was born in September 1926. [Annotator's Note: Harvey says he was born "around here" but the town name is...

John Stiles took part in the occupation of Japan. He had to get a driver's license for Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

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