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George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were anchored too far away from the surrender ceremony to be...

Sam S. McKeel graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and was offered...

They ended up at Camp Custer. DeMers had been getting promoted this entire time. He made 1st Sergeant by 1940. They...

When Louis J. Armentaro went in, there was another kid from Livingston [Annotator's Note: Livingston, Montana] that he...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

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

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] headed to the Philippines,...

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

Orville Carroll's most memorable experience of World War 2 was going over to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the army as a radio...

Michael Mervosh kept his binoculars in his pack the rest of the battle and he is thankful that he did. About a week...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was with the 1st Defense Battalion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.] They were on a guard duty...

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