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[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family returned to...

When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

James Billingsley was in the mountains fighting and going down a gulley [Annotator's Note: in the Philippines]. Machine...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

James Patterson enjoyed flying. He misses flying. His nephew took him to Mount Pleasant, Texas where there was a hangar...

Moving off the beach at Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture. A World War 1 veteran...

Melvin C. Whitman was born and raised in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. In high school, his...

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