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On 20 August 1945, Joseph Vater was liberated by Russian soldiers. He remembered them dropping in by parachute. At...

Robert Addison saw his first action on Tulagi which is a small island off the larger island of Guadalcanal [Annotator’s...

William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 1926. He was named after his father...

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

John Wicklund didn't get his full regular Army pay from August 1944 to August 1945. When he was discharged, he finally...

Arthur Killam was born in San Francisco and lived there until he was six years old when he moved to San Jose,...

For the first battle of the Matanikau, James Smith and the Raiders were going to go up the river and 1st Battalion, 7th...

Gerard V. Radice and his division [Annotator's Note: 7th Infantry Division] left Attu [Annotator's Note: Attu Island,...

[Annotator’s Note: A leaf blower can be heard in the background throughout the segment.] In March 1946, Clarence...

Thomas Tizzard decided to separate having survived two ships being torpedoed. He had had enough combat. Once on Guam,...

James Muri believes that his gunner shot up a Japanese antiaircraft gun crew on the Akagi but the Japanese claim that...

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