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Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

The B-29s carrying the second atomic bomb were overhead circling Yawata. The crew of the B-29 carrying the bomb was...

Carey Suratt left the Navy when his enlistment time was completed. In 1950, someone recommended Suratt join a new Army...

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Rufus Harris went to Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] for one day. On his last trip, he had just gotten married...

After World War 2, William C. Ellzey remained in the Navy until 1961. He was assigned to the USS Forrestal (CV-59) in...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewer is setting up the interview and it begins with small talk about the war.] Arthur...

On the morning of the battle, Vejtasa was flying CAP. Jimmy Flately and Johnny Leppla were flying escort for the...

[Annotator's Note: Fred Bergeron served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner in a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber in...

Elmer Koenig was born in July 1925 in Santa Ana, California. His older sister died in 1918. He grew up in Orange [...

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