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William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Kenneth Wieland does not remember too much about his basic training but recalls there was a lot of marching and time on...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands] was taken on 1 November [Annotator's Note: 1...

After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...

Wim de Jonge feels that The National WWII Museum is an important institution to maintain. The young people of today are...

On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Benjamin Hagans did not talk to people about his wartime experience for a long time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the sound does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

Louis John Walter departed New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] on the James Smith [Annotator's Note: SS...

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