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After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Frank Pomroy begins the interview by talking about the living conditions on Guadalcanal. Living conditions were as...

Oscar Culp was born in May 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young African-American, he saw some of the biases...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Norfolk, Virginia, where he picked up his ship. The ship held four LCMs [Annotator's...

During the battle Commander Becton [Annotator's Note: Admiral F. Julian Becton] was very calm. He gave orders to the...

Sterling Cale was assigned to recover the dead from the Arizona [Annotator's Note: USS Arizona (BB-39)] after the...

When the Japanese assaulted Wake Island the second time, Walter Bowsher was ordered to destroy his antiaircraft battery...

The B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] appealed to William Smith as an airplane. The...

Enlisting in the Navy at the age of 18, Lauren Bruner first reported to San Diego, California, for three months of...

Francis Bucher was on Adak [Annotator's Note: Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska] when the invasion of Kiska [...

Myers knows how Mahatma Gandhi survived; he could do it. He does not know why, but he understands how people can go and...

Richard Lafleur was not assigned to a unit after training. He knew he was going to be in the 1st Cavalry Division....

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