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Jack Skaggs was transferred from the Kiangwan POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp to Osaka, Japan in August...

The prisoners would steal stuff whenever they could. Sometimes the men would get searched. Everyone would throw their...

[Annotator’s Note: Video and sound is very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was in engineering school when the Army decided to cancel the program. He was sent to...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew's first campaign was on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines]. He had turned 21 while on a...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior could not initially enter Navy flight school because of the number of new potential...

He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

After the battle ended, Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment,...

William Scott Stroud departed Hawaii for Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands], stopping over...

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

Harold Buell discusses his wartime experiences and his opinions of multiple dive bomber and fighter pilots who he flew...

Oral History