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Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

The ship [Annotator's Note: the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13)] wasn't at Pearl Harbor for long before heading...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout thi clip.] One of Malcolm Louis Holleman's cousins...

George Colburn only heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor]. He was just a Private and...

Thomas Goss’ most memorable experiences of World War 2 were meeting his wife and the atomic bombs dropping on Japan [...

Frank Stewart was in the hospital on Espiritu Santos. After about ten days, he decided to go down the hall to the...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 3rd Amphibious Corps] returned to the United Stated...

Paul Franklin went to work for an oil company after he graduated high school. While at the water house, Franklin...

Archibald Boyd Rackerby was born in July 1920 in Washington, D.C. because his mother and her family were Washingtonians...

Louis Zamperini thought that the mission [Annotator's Note: to bomb Wake Island] was a piece of cake because they were...

Dale Smith was born in Ontario, California in March 1925. His great grandfather moved there in 1892 and was a founder....

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