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James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was sent to...

Soon after being drafted into the Army, Richard Jaccarino was sent to Camp Upton at the end of Long Island, New York...

Raymond Hayes' most memorable experience of the war was going aboard ships and doing what he had to do. Like it or not...

Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Sidney Philips remembers the Marines bringing the amphibious tank up the creek from the beach. It was just sitting...

On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...

In addition to making him more alert, the war also improved Walter Broll's outlook on life. In meeting a former Me-109...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

Wallace McKay was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he joined the USS Pollux (...

Charles Struble learned about the atomic bombs being dropped after the aircraft returned [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is background noise throughout this clip.] After his mission on...

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