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While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

While in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], Victor Yost helped clean the ship. When at sea, Yost...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

Earl Williams was a corporal [Annotator's Note: in the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] when they landed [...

[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] David Lansou believes that the way...

In early August 1945, the 321st Bombardment Squad, 90th bombardment group [Annotator’s Note: 321st Bombardment Squadron...

Bill Norberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

Crain was 1 of the seaman in the boat. They were on a transport ship originally. When Crain was on the transport ship...

Paul Fair remembers it was sandy on the beach of New Guinea, then it turned into a jungle. The weapons he used did not...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. left a situation where he was tasked with destroying everything and went home to a place...

William Currier [Annotator's Note: while serving as a radarman aboard the USS Hall (DD-583)] headed to Iwo Jima [...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

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