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William “Bill” Knapp volunteered for the US Navy when he was 17 years old. His parents consented to his enlistment....

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

William Hall settled down after the war with the Marines but grew angry with the Marine Corps and quit. He did not like...

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

James Gaffney discusses transition back into civilian life and his home life with two new children following his return...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell served in...

While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

Richard Nummer experienced the brutality of war on Iwo Jima. He and his buddies witnessed Japanese soldiers lying with...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

Leon Griffith was unloading mules [Annotator's Note: as part of the 98th Field Artillery Battalion] and the Japanese...

Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died 12 April [Annotator's...

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