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Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

John Kelley did not see any combat action until he was on Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines]. He wore the...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Nimocks Foyle Ladner already in conversation with the interviewer.] Ladner...

Earl Williams was a corporal [Annotator's Note: in the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] when they landed [...

William Roy went below on the Hammann [Annotator's Note: USS Hammann (DD-412)]. Roy found sailors being operated on and...

Stewart Bass was aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10) when the Japanese kamikazes continuously attacked over the course of 51...

While working on a road, Ben Steele would see men covered with mosquitos. They did not have mosquito nets to sleep with...

Byron Herbert Meader's most memorable experience of World War 2 was meeting up with the Russians and observing how they...

Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

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