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Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

When Jack D. Owen was discharged, he was required to give a urine sample to make sure he had no medical problems. All...

Miller Lampell, who had written a radio program, was assigned by the New York Herald Tribune to write Ben Kuroki's...

[Annotator's Note: There is the sound of a lawnmower in the background during this clip.] Harry Bender was born and...

Asked how he got a Japanese flag, Holly Rees said that nearly every enemy soldier carried one folded up on top of the...

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was on USS LST-124 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank] until just before the end of the war...

The B-29s carrying the second atomic bomb were overhead circling Yawata. The crew of the B-29 carrying the bomb was...

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

Deen believes the mortar team helped to save the men at the point [Annotators Note: on Peleliu, September 1944]. He...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

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