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Aboard ship, Wahlen's platoon leader would talk to his men about what to expect when they landed [Annotators Note: on...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Once the war had...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as a turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). When...

Howard Cain’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he flew over Hiroshima [Annotator’s Note: Hiroshima,...

Robert Leroy Shirkey was born in Vliets, Kansas in April 1924. He grew up on a farm with eight brothers and sisters....

It was patriotic duty that influenced Aaron Baumgarten to serve in World War 2 and, on a personal level, he felt he had...

Nicanor Guzman was born in the Philippines in March 1918. He got his two year basic course in the Army. He also studied...

Daniel J. Lawler [Annotator's Note: serving with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in...

Barbara Butler was born in Syracuse, New York in 1921. Her father was a salesman so they moved around a lot when she...

The crew left from San Francisco, California, and Theodore Theodore remembers that during the overnight flight the...

Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...

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