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Michael Maziarczyk was stationed in the Philippines when the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

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

Edward Bale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1920. He was the only child. His father was in the automobile tire business....

Louis R. Lepore took a cruise to Washington D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington, District of Columbia]. He saw the World...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form. He typed up the request and asked to be assigned to Torpedo...

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

J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says she wants to ask Marthe Cohn some specific questions about the American Spirit...

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