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Charles Chartier was sworn in in Detroit [Annotator’s Note: Detroit, Michigan]. He went to basic training at Fort Bragg...

Robert M. Solomon lost a girlfriend when he had to go participate in the maneuvers. He felt like the United States...

Coming back to the United States was kind of boring for Robert D. Shaner. They [Annotator's Note: Shaner and the crew...

Gerald West spent 1944 in an OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, the pre-runner of the CIA] training...

The last mission Maynard David flew was on 30 August [Annotator's Note: 30 August 1945]. It was an air-sea rescue...

James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

One of the replacements sent to James Goodrich's squad was killed before Goodrich ever got his name because he did not...

Charles Watkins Adair was sent to Nadzab, New Guinea [Annotator's Note: Nadzab Airfield in Lae, Papua New Guinea with...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled getting on the Higgins Boats [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or...

Olaf Rose became acquainted with, and courted, his future wife by mail from the Pacific. When he came home on a 30 day...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...

Oral History