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Clem Thrift was born in January 1927 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He never knew his father, who died in an accident...

Hugh Ettinger and his friend R.J.’s plane landed in Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and they were...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

They started taking off the most severely wounded. Another APD [Annotator's Note: a destroyer or destroyer escort...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner thinks that World War 2 does not mean much to the younger generations. It is only history to them...

Claude Bufford Shaw grew up around Carson Lake [Annotator's Note: Carson Lake, Arkansas] until he was about 11 years...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw his first action [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11)], when a...

George Joseph Bertucci wanted to improve his education after the military. He received his GED and then went to air...

Jack Leaming and his pilot were taken to Yokohama. [Annotator's Note: Leaming was the rear gunner in the Douglas SDB...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that he wanted to join the Navy because he wanted to fight like the rest of his friends. He...

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