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Remi Kidder was sent to San Diego, California for his basic training. He was used to hard work and discipline so that...

Gene Alair's most memorable experience of the war was being back on board the USS Astoria (CA-34), below decks...

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

John Geiger was security for the officer while on missions. They took the officer wherever he wanted to go. Every...

Being Captured

In late summer of 1951 John Reeder returned to the United States. He was immediately sent to Quantico, Virginia for a...

Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...

James Bollich's younger brother never made it overseas. One brother died in a fighter pilot accident and the other died...

Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...

Gravois didn't get any sleep during the 2 nights he was on Tarawa. The Japanese tried to infiltrate their lines, but...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Oral History