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David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

Cecil Ezell McLain was aboard the battleship [Annotator's Note: USS Tennessee (BB-43)] when it bombarded and took Kiska...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Looking back, 65 years after the event, James Muri believes that the Battle of Midway had to be a turning point in the...

James J. Hill was with 12 others [Annotator's Note: of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 (VMF-214)] over Rabaul [Annotator's...

The general population was preparing, women too, to defend that island. Myers feels that if they did not drop the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert J. Ferris to talk about the photo album that he has with him. He points...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

Therese Wadsworth Warne's [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2]...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285) enjoyed free time at Brisbane [Annotator's...

Ralph Burch remembers they had to be out on watch. [Annotator’s Note: The video starts to have audio problems.] He...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

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