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Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

There were usually 24 planes in James Bazet's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 223 (VMF-223)], and...

On 13 January 1944, Steve McMurray left on a troop transport ship and was amazed at the clear blue water of the Pacific...

There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

James Bowie used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted...

Richard Nummer experienced the brutality of war on Iwo Jima. He and his buddies witnessed Japanese soldiers lying with...

Charles Brooks entered the United States Navy. He was first shipped to Athens, Georgia for basic physical training...

Arthur Pendleton does not remember who was in the hole with him [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru...

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

The war made James Roland Westbrook a better person. He had not finished high school, so went home to Mississippi and...

Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Clarence Wolf Guts already in conversation with the interviewer]. After...

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