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The crew left from San Francisco, California, and Theodore Theodore remembers that during the overnight flight the...

Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior [Annotator's Note...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

James Shelton Scales landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan, Mariana...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with someone off camera talking about Orville Bethard seeing kamikaze aircraft...

Lisle Neher was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in August 1924. Life in Oshkosh was wonderful. There was a lot to do and...

James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...

George A. Damiano recalled the rainy weather while on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], and that it was hard...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...

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