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James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...

Philip Curran was in the Yellow Sea [Annotator's Note: sea located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula] for...

David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

Louis J. Armentaro was drafted even though he wanted to go prove himself. They told him he was underweight and would...

Captain Hunt [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Captain George P. Hunt] was no longer in command of K Company [...

James Bowie knew the war was still going on when he was going home. Many of the men had war souvenirs. They were told...

Lloyd Dendy was the company bootlegger on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. They made a still out of aluminum...

Harry McKnight was not smart enough to be afraid until he heard shells firing for the first time. It took time for him...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

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