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Charles Chartier thought he would go where it was nice and warm. He joined his outfit overseas. As they left Seattle,...

Wim de Jonge reached a prison in Singapore where he was guarded by Indian troops who had formerly served in the British...

Claude Taylor married his wife after graduating LSU [Annotator's Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,...

Malcom Ernest was at Bataan [Annotator's Note: Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, Philippines] about four months [Annotator's...

Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...

Louis Andriano graduated high school at 17 [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. His father wanted him to work but he could...

By the time Kenneth A. Lafleur had enough points to go home, he had flown 41 missions in the Pacific. Lafleur remarked...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

Arthur Jackson's first contact with the enemy on Okinawa was during a patrol. He volunteered for everything. He was...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 231 (VMSB-231) on Majuro Atoll, Marshall...

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...

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