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Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

George Joseph Sullivan left Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands] for Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian,...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

They were cruising around Java when they ran aground in the valley straights [Annotators Note: aboard the USS Boise in...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells Marthe Cohn that she is going to switch to asking the American Spirit Award...

Paul Sparacino was born in July 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. His father drove a log truck. They moved to Alexandria,...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

Loren Bennett went to boot camp at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois]....

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