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Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

Robert Masters was born in Akron, Ohio in August 1925. When he was five years old, the family moved to Santa Monica [...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

Crain watched about the first 10 minutes of the movie "Saving Private Ryan." He is normally able to keep his emotions...

Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. started his Navy service on 30 October 1942 at Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in...

The first flight Jack Glass went on was a search mission during the later stage of the Eastern Solomons campaign. The...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this clip.] In September 1945, William Ward...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Harlan Twible to describe the USS Indianapolis (CA-...

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