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Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Asked about offloading reinforcements for the Army's 27th Division [Annotator's Note: 27th Infantry Division] at...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. served on the Tippecanoe [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)] which was 480 feet long...

Vaughn Whitworth did not decide to fight in World War 2, he was inducted. He felt it was his duty to go along. He did...

Keith Renstrom discusses what it was like to train soldiers. One time, he witnessed a soldier giving bayonet...

After picking up the 3rd Division [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Division], the Marines landed on the island [Annotator'...

Benjamin Carson returned to Kwajalein with other Raiders and with Louis Zamperini [Annotator's Note: Louis S. Zamperini...

Albert Yamamoto's [Annotator's Note: an American citizen who was in Japan during the war] most memorable experience of...

Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...

On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...

Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] began...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

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