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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Thomas Kolesa to talk about the radar he worked with.] Antiaircraft artillery...

Robert Taylor made the landing [Annotator's Note: on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea] on LSTs [Annotator...

Fiske Hanley II was selected to go to flight engineer school after basic training because of his college degree in...

The Japanese hit their fuel supplies and it caused a lot of damage [Annotator's Note: on Wake Island on 8 December 1941...

James J. Hill flew with VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211)] as the war ended. He learned...

Donald Herbert Shown was with a doctor, chaplain and Marine captain who swam around trying to take care of the wounded...

William Earl Gast remarks that during his time in Europe, he lived day by day. He did not think about whether he would...

George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...

Walter Broll became more cautious as a result of his experience at Bari, Italy with the German bomber attack on Allied...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

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