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On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

While overseas, Robert Savage was aware of Japanese propaganda that was being broadcast. Savage says Tokyo Rose [...

Robert L. Donovan went from the Philippines to the United States [Annotator’s Note: in November 1945]. Everybody wanted...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner fought on Leyte Island, Philippines from October 1944 until April 1945]. In that time,...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

After the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: the surrender was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on 15 August...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell’s most...

Robert Swan left the island [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] around 8 or 10 June [Annotator's Note: June 1942]. Even...

Joseph Brannan was changed by the Second World War. He had started college prior to the war, but was not enthusiastic...

James Paul Lynch says the FM radar [Annotator's Note: or FM sonar, high-frequency, short-range sonar using frequency...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that the USS PGM-1 had patrol duty around the Philippines. He recalled the kamikaze attacks...

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