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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about a soldier who committed suicide.] A guy told...

James Buckley was assigned to the USS LST-1013, a Landing Ship, Tank. It was as long as football field and 50 feet wide...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

Joseph F. McGee Junior's most vivid memory of World War 2 is the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

Towards the end of the war, Burl Loving transferred to an APA [Annotator’s Note: Auxiliary Personnel, Attack troop...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Melvin C. Whitman was born and raised in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. In high school, his...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...

Robert Powers was called back to the service for Korea [Annotator's Note: the Korean War]. He had been honorably...

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