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Charles Chartier thought he would go where it was nice and warm. He joined his outfit overseas. As they left Seattle,...

Lloyd Dendy returned to his family in Anse La Butte [Annotator's Note: Anse La Butte, Louisiana]. There is a salt mine...

Stanley Fagerstrom still writes for half a day, every day. He had both of his knees replaced, and one of his hips...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] Wallace Johnson served aboard the USS Jamestown...

After spending months trying to kill Japanese, Oran Harris now had to live with them. He felt sorry for the civilians,...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Taylor served in the Navy as a corpsman attached to Headquarters and Service Company, 7th...

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

James Gulotta was sent to New Caledonia. New Caledonia was a French possession which was used a staging area for new...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

George Colburn got a ten-day leave to go home after bootcamp. Two of his buddies were home at the same time. He then...

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