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The planes did not form up, instead they headed out one by one. They also did not go up to their normal cruising height...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

The 96th Division [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] spent Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] on...

When John Mikus, Jr. enlisted in the Marine Corps, war was different than it is today. The whole country went to war....

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

Hersey Goodwin is glad his daughter called [Annotator's Note: for this interview]. He does not mind discussing it at...

Jacklyn Lucas goes around the country on speaking tours. He wears his medal [Annotator's Note: the Medal of Honor; the...

Harold Whitaker went overseas in 1949. He was at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan when the Korean War began. After the...

Carrol Smith landed during the invasion of Angaur Island in the Palau island group [Annotator’s Note: the invasion...

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