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Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

Earl Dean Browning had no problems becoming a civilian. You have to make up your mind. His was that he was going to go...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the American officers at Cabanatuan [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: George Alaniz arrived in San Diego, California after being severely wounded on Attu Island, Alaska...

Richard Bennett thinks World War 2 doesn't mean much to today's Americans, except for a small amount of appreciation....

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

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

Herbert Yudenfriend left [Annotator's Note: from Manila, Luzon, Philippines on 23 September 1946] on the tail end of...

Benjamin Carson and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion left San Diego and headed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS J....

In this segment, Joe Clapper reviewed photographs that visually record the history of his platoon [Annotator's Note:...

James Richard O'Rorke worked in the factory [Annotator's Note: in a steel mill in Ōsaka, Japan as a prisoner of war]...

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