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Jack Skaggs realized that he had been on a long journey in his life. That journey has brought him pride and enjoyment....

On their approach, Steve McMurray had heard that the landings on Iwo Jima were not going well. The scenes on the...

Willis Mills returned to the United States aboard a ship and docked at Oakland [Annotator’s Note: Oakland, California...

Representatives from each camp were taken to Okinawa for a meeting to determine the best way to get the American...

Alfred Taddeo became an instructor at Melbourne, Florida where he met several former VF-10 [Annotator's Note: Fighting...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps on a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were living...

Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher thought the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was the...

Russell Gackenbach said that he would be part of the atomic bomb mission again if he was asked to do it. We were at war...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

A call went out for volunteers and Battery H, 11th Marine Regiment sent five people to the front to help out. Three of...

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