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Basic training was not too bad for Leslie B. Mason, Junior. His dad was an athletic director, so he was used to doing...

After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...

Sherwin Lansing Eddy was born January 1924 in Corona, California. His mother passed away when he was seven years old,...

Leon J. Neiman was at a pool room when he heard the bomb had been dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Thomas E. Warne and his family were living outside Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] where his father owned...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Jake Ussery and the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] began to prepare for Okinawa soon after departing...

At the end of the war, Donald F. Goyette says, the United States could put 130 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29...

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

John Wicklund didn't get his full regular Army pay from August 1944 to August 1945. When he was discharged, he finally...

Robert L. Rorschach enlisted in the Navy and attended Midshipman School at Prairie State, and spent time aboard the...

James Oney and his outfit [Annotator's Note: ACORN 12; Aviation, Construction, Ordnance, Repair 12] loaded all of their...

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