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It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Whidhelm ended up as the CO of Scouting 8 aboard the USS Hornet. One day while sitting in the ready room Vejtasa...

Theodore Pavlovich compares the battles on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with those in...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was serving stateside near the war's end. He was assigned to shore patrol in Hollywood [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

The first time Mort Oman experienced enemy fire was in the Philippines when the Japanese fired upon him, and he did not...

Harold Zeringer arrived at Pearl Harbor after convoy duty from the west coast. He saw the Arizona [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker went to India as a photo reconnaissance pilot.] India was damp and humid, but very...

Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Ray Felts got orders to go back to Port Hueneme, California where he was updating records, and noticed the Navy was...

Abraham Sacks was born in September 1919 in London, England with one younger sister. He arrived in New York [Annotator'...

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