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Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Donald F. Goyette has four sons, all of whom have achieved success in their lives. When he retired, he and his wife of...

Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

Willard Ashford [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 134th Naval Construction Battalion in Guam] was preparing to invade...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer and Kenneth Dwight Wells are in conversation during the first part of the tape.]...

Looking back, 65 years after the event, James Muri believes that the Battle of Midway had to be a turning point in the...

When Claude Taylor turned 18, he enlisted in the Navy. His father had been in the Army in France in World War 1. The...

Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

[Annotator's Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the Army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...

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