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Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan became a...

William Lee Barnes does not remember seeing the island of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], but he does...

Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was on Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands with the 1st Marine Division]. He never...

On 19 February 1945, Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a first class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction...

The intelligence group was on Thomas Francis Schicker's outfit's [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...

James Patterson trained in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]. His crew was like a family. They...

Jacklyn Lucas's uncle had been a Marine. He finished his eighth grade of school in June 1942. He overwhelmed his mother...

When Walter Bowsher was at the Post Exchange at San Diego, he found out about a cruel Japanese interpreter being...

When he was discharged, Carroll Harris was told to go home [Annotator's Note: Rockport, Mississippi]. He was also told...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart graduated flight training then was sent to Naval Auxiliary Air Station Miramar, in San...

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