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By the second day of basic training Leon J. Neiman realized how hard serving in the military was going to be. One day...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...

Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...

William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...

The 96th Division [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] spent Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] on...

Jack Leaming and the crew of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Marshall Islands in February...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] was eating...

Charles Chartier returned to the United States around Christmas of 1946. The trip home was a lot shorter than the trip...

William Pierce returned to San Francisco in March 1946. He was discharged in April 1946. He was shipped back to New...

Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Fred Gemmel already in conversation with the interviewer.] Gemmel arrived...

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