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[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with James Billingsley midsentence in a new story.] Billingsley says that after the...

Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

Charles "Chuck" Wisher was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1926. His father was in construction so at five years of...

Yukio Kawamoto was a precious child for his parents. The draft got him and he went to war. Kawamoto worked for the...

Richard Miralles was bombing the Philippines. A pilot had dropped two bombs into his bomb bay. The bombs blew up and...

During the war James Salerno did not like the Japanese and had nothing nice to say about them. The Japanese soldiers...

When Orville Bethard graduated from high school he was 19 years old and eligible for the draft. He did not like the...

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

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