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[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in Headquarters, 52nd...

Adolph Wilson and his outfit sailed back to Hawaii after Iwo Jima. They were being trained to assault Sasebo, Japan as...

They were on General's Quarters [Annotator's Note: ready for battle] for 72 hours. The guys would take turns on their...

Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Helena (CL-50) when it was hit by torpedoes ans sunk on 6 July 1943 [Annotator's Note:...

John "Jack" Raquepau went to get his harness fit and there were enlisted people living on that deck. They had about...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

Joseph Vater believes Manchuria [Annotator's Note: Manchuria, China] was the coldest place on Earth. He was given a...

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

Robert Hilton Cahoon was born in Chunky, Mississippi in October 1921. Cahoon liked school, but school was only for...

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