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[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Okinawa, Japan in July 1945.] There was a sign posted saying that they...

Stanley Fagerstrom did not find boot camp to be bad. He made a lot of friendships. He felt they were being well-trained...

Alfred Alvarez was about 16 years old when Pearl Harbor happened [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

Wim de Jonge returned to Holland where found that the government was not willing to pay his three and a half years of...

During the second Truk raid Alexander Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

He took the advice of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jack Dobbs went right to work, hauling building supplies. He established a...

Curtis Winfred Wise had no trouble adjusting to civilian life. He did not use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I...

Ed Weber saw a movie with John Payne [Annotator's Note: John Howard Payne, American actor] and Maureen O'Sullivan [...

Frederick Ellis and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-751] went back and forth among the islands in the Pacific on...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

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