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Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

Asked about offloading reinforcements for the Army's 27th Division [Annotator's Note: 27th Infantry Division] at...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...

Calvin Moore was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the Japanese surrendered. They were running bets...

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

[Annotator’s Note: Talking and other noises are audible in the background through this segment.] Leander Bubrig’s most...

On the 17th of June [Annotator's Note: 17 June 1945 on Okinawa] they moved back off of Kunishi Ridge. A colonel was...

After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...

Dee Wayne White’s most memorable experience of his service was in the Merchant Marine when his ship took on several...

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