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[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

[Annotator's Notes: There is some chit chat between the interviewer and interviewee before the interview begins.]...

Joe G. Casillas was trained as a rifleman in the infantry. He got to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana...

Richard Baile was given a rigid physical which was going well until they gave him the color blind test again. This time...

Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

The F6F Hellcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] was very tough [Annotator's Note: when...

O’Hearn “Duffy” Vincent Dufour, assigned to the USS Preston (DD-379), met the fleet in the Pacific [Annotator’s Note:...

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Before...

Joseph Vater's older brother was old enough to serve, but was married and had a child, so he was not drafted. Vater was...

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