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When Harold Long graduated from Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts], he was...

Buck Donaldson remembers only one other sailor was in church on his first day in Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] was on the island of Luzon [...

Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

Clarence Becker was based at Harmon Field, also called Depot Field [Annotator's Note: now Harmon Air Force Base on Guam...

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

Harold Joslin and his fellow prisoners of war tried to keep their humor up. There was a Japanese guard who marched them...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

Charles Bishop stayed with the Piranha [Annotators Note: USS Piranha (SS-389)] to put her out of commission since he...

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