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The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

James William Grimes had a discussion with his parents [Annotator's Note: about changing his date of birth on his birth...

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

The 24th [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1941] was the same; no water and no food. They could barely talk. On the...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

The ship spent a few days in San Diego. When the Yorktown had passed through the Panama Canal, Vejtasa had been...

After graduating from radio school, Fred Bergeron, his older brother and their two friends, were all assigned to Task...

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