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Pomroy, Frank Japanese Dead at the Tenaru River
Frank Pomroy and his fellow Marines walked down to the sandspit at the mouth of the Tenaru River and stared at the dead...
Kelley, John Training to be a Paratrooper
John Kelley was born in Dalton, Georgia in June 1924. He grew up in Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] where...
Pomroy, Frank Tenaru River and Being Replaced by a National Guard Division
When the battle initially started, Frank Pomroy was positioned with a water-cooled machine gun [Annotator's note: .30...
Kelley, John Overseas to the Pacific
When John Kelley and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery D, 457th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne...
Jensen, Mervin Postwar life
Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...
Kent, Edward War’s End & Postwar
Edward F. Kent and his glider unit landed near a German outpost in Le Muy, France. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note...
Schneider, Tony Missing Coral Sea and Heading to Midway
Schneider recounts that after the Marshall Islands raid in early February 1942, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) participated...
Kelley, Archie Aftermath of Pearl Harbor Attack
Archie Kelley [Annotator's Note: assigned to the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] was never questioned about Pearl Harbor...
Fair, Paul Reflections
Paul Fair thinks it is important to teach people about World War Two. Millions of people were killed in the war. It is...
Williamson, Leon Preparing for Battle
Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...
Welch, Richard Growing Up on a Farm
Richard Welch was born in November 1927 in Perry, Michigan. His father, a sharecropper, moved the family to various...
Rackham, Milton Reflections on the War
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

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