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James Smith recalled that the Japanese attacked at around nine that night and things were going bad. A number of...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines laughed at the Japanese bombing the lagoon. Nothing was being accomplished while the...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the rest of the captured Wake Marines [Annotator's Note: US Marines who were captured when...

Embarking on their journey to the Pacific, Richard Bennett's squadron [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 31...

After the clean-up of Pearl Harbor, John Cassidy chose to stay in the Pacific on the USS Vincennes (CA-44) which...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Werner what in his childhood in Austria made him what he is today and...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees were very leery of their Japanese captors. They were not all bad...

Charles Womack saw many civilians on Okinawa. The civilians would bow as the Marines passed by them. Womack's unit [...

Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...

Floyd James Reissig was drafted in May 1944. He was allowed to choose his service after his physical. He was not...

Bill Norberg boarded USS Enterprise (CV-6) and was amazed by the ship. He could never find the swimming pool. He was a...

Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...

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