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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

Clarence Strobel believes his service in World War 2 was necessary. He made good friends and realized that he was a...

Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...

Carrel Reavis was in the CCC Camp [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation Corps] as First Sergeant of his company in...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

Paul Bannai interrogated Japanese soldiers and read Japanese documents during the war. When the war ended, Bannai was...

Fred Gemmel [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 2nd Class assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724)] saw kamikazes [Annotator's...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson enlisted in the Navy and was sent to a ship in the Hudson River to train on. He was supposed...

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] had a close call at Nichols...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was assigned to...

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