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John Bradley and his mother moved to the United States in 1949 [Annotator's Note: they were liberated 3 February 1945,...

Charles Brooks was sent to VT-3 [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 3 (VT-3)] which was forming up on the big island at...

Walter Bank was born in 1926 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, the youngest of three sons of immigrant parents. His father...

William Stewart is 88 years old. He was born in April 1929 in Glendale, California. He has one brother. His father...

Cecil Ezell McLain was aboard the battleship [Annotator's Note: USS Tennessee (BB-43)] when it bombarded and took Kiska...

Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...

Jack D. Owen was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1926. He had a twin sister and an older brother. Owen’s father struggled...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

They kept moving up trying to find the Japanese [Annotator's Note: on the island of New Guinea]. There was a supply...

[Annotator’s Note: An air conditioner can be heard turning on and off throughout this clip.] The best thing Harry...

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