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James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Lisle Neher was flabbergasted when he first saw the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber...

Richard Witaker fought in World War 2 out of a sense of duty to his country. He cannot understand anyone who shirks the...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] saw kamikazes [Annotator's...

Thomas Joseph Lemme remained in recovery in the hospital until the end of the war [Annotator's Note: he had been...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about Nasugbu, Philippines.] They came out of Luzon [...

George Joseph Sullivan was on a ship gun crew. When he would be sitting off the beach, he would ask to go ashore. Once...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...

One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...

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