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[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the army as a radio...

Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...

Norman Hatch disembarked his ship in Nagasaki Harbor to begin the occupation of Japan and immediately saw the...

James McEnery was sent to a naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. While he was in Norfolk a national state of emergency was...

There were four parallel 9,000 foot runways [Annotator's Note: on Tinian]. Paul Dietzel's group was at the far end. One...

Kenneth A. Lafleur talks about his missions in the Philippines. His unit [Annotator's Note: 408th Bombardment Squadron...

When Paul Lawrence arrived in New Guinea, the fighting had gone further up the coast. They did see some Bettys [...

David Eugene Turnbull was born in March 1925 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His family moved to Blue Springs, Nebraska where his...

Pete Brock was born in April 1926 in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

Gordon Tadewaldt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the USS PGM-1 was caught in a typhoon on their way...

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