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Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Jimmie Dyer went overseas on a ship that was designed as a tanker. It was a sorry piece of machinery. It was a tough...

[Annotators Note: Richard Cole served in the USAAF as a pilot flying B-25 Mitchell medium with the 17th Bombardment...

Mark Maynard trained new submariners at New London before being assigned to a new submarine. He was responsible to...

Life aboard ship was just something Charles Bishop and his fellow sailors adjusted to. They worked four hours on and...

Jerome Paul DiFulco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. He grew up there during the hard times of the...

Wilbur Rogers was born in August 1925 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, the youngest of six boys and three girls. His wasn't a...

Harold “Hal” Leith arrived in Kunming, China by airplane. His aircraft was successful in reaching the destination, but...

Lloyd Guillory had a very successful and lucrative career as an architect. It allowed him to enjoy ownership of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

After completing basic training in the Army, Richard Hebert, Sr. was shipped to California and then boarded a troop...

Oral History