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

While on watch duty [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Aldebaran (AF-10)], Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade studied the stars....

He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...

In April 1942, Dennis Allen Andrews was assigned as the Electrician's Mate 3rd Class to the USS Plunger (SS-179). On...

When Claire Maddox went into the service [Annotator's Note: in the summer of 1943], he had the option to pick any of...

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

Clem Thrift's most memorable experience of the war was finding out he had joined the regular Navy, learning a trade,...

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

After the war, Robert S. Gibbs told his boss he was getting married, and he asked for a raise. His pay went up to 200...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Charles Kneflin had never seen anything like the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]....

Forrest Villarrubia was in combat with General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] on Leyte...

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