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Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was born in Ballinger, Texas in May 1925. In the 1920s, his parents owned a ranch. Because...

In boot camp, George Vincent Ross was initially treated as a low-life by the DI [Annotator's Note: drill instructor]....

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was told...

Paul Fair thinks it is important to teach people about World War Two. Millions of people were killed in the war. It is...

[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with Paul Dietzel and the interviewer talking about LORAN and flying over the vast...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Salvador Perino was sent to Memphis, Tennessee to fly Stearmans [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Kaydet or...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

They found out the Japanese operation was going to take place at Midway. Nimitz had to get his aircraft carriers back...

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