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James was there for about 2 or 3 months for ground school. He was then shipped to Lafayette. He did not make his first...

James Smith recalled that the Japanese attacked at around nine that night and things were going bad. A number of...

David McKinley Blackwell did not stay in New Guinea long. The terrain was mountainous and covered in jungle. From there...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

Samuel Malta was based in Brooklyn New York as a military escort for the war dead. It was rough duty. He had to sign...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

[Annotator's Note: This interview was conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

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