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Victor James Yost was born on a farm in Illinois in October 1920. His parents were farmers. Yost was one of eight...

Thomas Tizzard decided to separate having survived two ships being torpedoed. He had had enough combat. Once on Guam,...

G.I.s from John Smith's Battery B, 61st Field Artillery were transferred to form C Battery 271st Field Artillery...

[Annotator's Note: Abner Aust stayed in the military after the end of World War 2.] The 36th Tactical Fighter Wing was...

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

Robert Savage's most memorable experience of the war was seeing the treaty signed [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

Walter Knapps was a Marine Corps security guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was assigned to the crew of a crash boat and deployed to Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll,...

Dupuy was rotated out after his escort missions on Truk. There was no system of rotation for pilots in the Pacific like...

Running is in Ernest "Ernie" Andrus' nature. He has been a runner most of his life. He ran his first 200 mile relay...

John Caudle did not have a lot of notice when he was called to active duty. He came home after work one Friday and had...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] On 10...

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