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One of the replacements sent to James Goodrich's squad was killed before Goodrich ever got his name because he did not...

When James Patterson and his unit went to Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the Philippines], they went into some of...

Judge Gordon Thompson recalled preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines. He recalled...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was looking forward to seeing the enemy. The Marines were under the Navy. After training, they...

William Lutz was born in March 1920. He had three younger sisters, and two younger brothers who served in the Korean...

A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the...

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

On 1 June 1945, 800 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] and B-17s [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Francis Borrell's first cruise was in the Atlantic Ocean. Borrell believes Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator...

Jack Leaming sees the war as something they had to live with. They had to do the best they could to be happy and have a...

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