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In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

William Scott Stroud's [Annotator's Note: Stroud was shot down on his first mission in the Pacific, survived ten days...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's first combat experience was at...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and the...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

Although in retrospect Holly Rees thinks he may have been naive, he felt certain that his battlefield career was over...

Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

Walter Jacobs took part in the fighting on Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima, and Okinawa. Of those, Okinawa was the...

Allen Horton returned to his memory of life on the USS Nevada (BB-36). He said the Nevada had been at Pearl Harbor, and...

Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...

Phineas Stevens feels it is absolutely important that future generations continue to study World War 2. It was horrible...

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