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Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Roy Stewart was a replacement in the 4th Marine Division. The unit [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

With all of the different kinds of huts that the Filipinos used they mainly used armor-piercing ammunition because...

Waldron was the commanding officer of Torpedo Squadron 8. He wanted things done his way and he wanted them done right....

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat...

Stanley Fagerstrom was born in June 1923 in Schaffer, North Dakota. He had a sister who was eight years older than him...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BARman, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th...

While on his cruiser [Annotator's Note: USS San Juan (CL-54)], Dale Peterson's favorite form of entertainment was...

Drafted into the Army in 1943, Peter Paret was thrown in with unfamiliar types, and became a fairly solitary man. His...

Bruno S. Rinas embarked from San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He visited Alcatraz [...

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