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Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

Alvin Barnes heard an interesting story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [...

A great number of the troops that were mustered were from the South. Warren J. Haslauer believes the Southern people,...

James Bowie joined the Marine Corps. He only knew what he saw in the newsreels. He had an uncle who served in the Navy...

Richard F. Penwell participated in the famous Raid on Los Banos [Annotator's Note: liberation of Los Baños Internment...

Joe G. Casillas reported to Presidio of San Francisco [Annotator's Note: in California] from Fresno [Annotator's Note:...

They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...

William Winter was born in 1923 in Grenada County, Mississippi. He came up during the depression on a cotton and cattle...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

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

Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...

James Billingsley was treated well as a replacement. In combat troops, it is a different thing altogether. He never...

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