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[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Fred Gemmel already in conversation with the interviewer.] Gemmel arrived...

Harry McKnight learned how to follow orders in boot camp. It helped him in battle. He was in good shape because he was...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is background noise throughout this clip.] After his mission on...

Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...

Wim de Jonge's Japanese captors disrespected the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. Prisoners would be beaten...

John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] After recruit training, George...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera comes in and out of the room.] Oral Russell Beard and his...

Mort Oman was not aware that a large battle had jut taken place when he arrived in Buna, New Guinea in June 1944. He...

David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...

Thomas Edward Pugh enjoyed returning to the United States, but also enjoyed going overseas. Pugh was surprised when he...

They [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division] went into Mindanao [...

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