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Frederick Jenkins was in damage control in the machine shop where the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide...

William C. Ellzey joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in May 1941] and trained as a hospital corpsman in Portsmouth,...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

Noah Lewis could not believe how many people were killed by the atomic bomb. He was shown a before and after picture of...

Robert Swan left the island [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] around 8 or 10 June [Annotator's Note: June 1942]. Even...

Wallace Spencer remembers when they were under attack. All the guns were firing. The crew was sitting there watching...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

When Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156)] returned to Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

James Ramage and other pilots were ready to go [Annotator's Note: Ramage is talking about attacking Japanese aircraft...

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

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

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