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Lincoln D. Brennan Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was receiving his equipment right before he was sent...

Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

Towards the end of World War 2, John Carruth, serving in the Navy, was sent to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note:...

Lowell Rodrigue was assigned to a special unit and sent to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau Islands], but the...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Norman Kleiss went to the ready room. The weather was very cloudy with just a few patches of open sky. A Japanese plane...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After the war ended...

Ralph Burch remembers they had to be out on watch. [Annotator’s Note: The video starts to have audio problems.] He...

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

Howard Robert Charles was born in Picher, Oklahoma. With environmental issues there, the mines were closed. His father...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

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