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Charles Martin did not want to be drafted into the Army. He tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet school. He passed...

Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...

William Lutz remembers the battles on Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines] were not bad. One man got out of...

Robert Masters' most memorable experience of World War 2 was the time Winston Churchill [Annotator's Note: Sir Winston...

A submarine was the first nuclear-powered vessel and the Nautilus' [Annotator's Note: USS Nautilus (SSN-571] reactor...

While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...

Once he was strong enough, James Bollich was transferred to Mukden, Manchuria [Annotator's Note: Mukden, Manchuria,...

Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

In this segment, Joe Clapper reviewed photographs that visually record the history of his platoon [Annotator's Note:...

Randall Edwards retired from the Navy and got a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. In...

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