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Philip Curran was born in May 1927 on Orrs Island, Maine. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was a mate on...

Richard Greer left Guadalcanal on 5 or 6 January 1943 and went to Melbourne. He was very happy to be leaving the island...

[Annotator's Note: A person off screen interjects throughout interview.] There were big rainstorms while there [...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...

One day in late 1945 Allen Tillery was called in to the office of the colonel and informed that his application for the...

Richard O'Hara was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1925 and lived there until he was about 15. He considers...

Richard Witaker landed on Red Beach 2 on Easter Sunday, April Fool's day of 1945 [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945]. The...

Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...

Gerard V. Radice and his division [Annotator's Note: 7th Infantry Division] left Attu [Annotator's Note: Attu Island,...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert "Al" Machaud believes that America...

Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

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