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When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

The fact that John McGlohon is one of the living eye witnesses to the first atomic explosion, and that he was on site...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Pedro Parra where he was when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Alvin von Frisch was born in Giessen, Germany in 1920. He began his education there but he, his mother, two sisters,...

Frank Savage was sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama. His aunt made a uniform for him so he could arrive with something...

Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

Edward F. Kent would like to tell younger people to listen to what other people have to say. He believes that World War...

Lloyd Guillory was sent to Japan near Kanagawa two weeks after the war ended. Things were disorganized. The squadron [...

Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...

Jimmie Dyer and the 6th Marine Division was sent to replace the Army's 27th Infantry Division in the south of Okinawa....

Crump was lucky making the transition from military to civilian life. He had worked in the shipyards prior to military...

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