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David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Frank Pryor combated loaded his troopship in Hilo, Hawaii. The fleet came together at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Besides the flag raising, Dave Severance's most vivid memory was the loss of troops. They knew that the Japanese were...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

William Roy [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) as the aircraft carrier's photographer] left Pearl Harbor...

Benjamin Hagans was on a PT boat [Annotator’s Note: patrol torpedo boat] that brought MacArthur [Annotator's Note:...

After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

There was a good 40 knot tail wind that was with them for several hours. When they got to the coast of Kyushu they were...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] and was put on a list to be a...

Charles Joseph Fox was born in New Roads, Louisiana. His father was a levee contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

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