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

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

For the invasion of Peleliu, Charles Womack and the other Marines transferred off the ship into amtracs [Annotator's...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

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

Anna McCalla Noren's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the trip across the Pacific and having to sit in...

After the war, Mac Glenn Morris returned to happy parents but no large celebration. He did what he had to do. He...

When Alfred Dearman got to Japan, he went to a replacement depot. He waited around there with his friend he had gone to...

In late 1943, Charles A. Waller boarded a ship from San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] with 800 other...

Charles Womack remembers that the bunkers and emplacements were often different from one to the next. He came across...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

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