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Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

James Ramage and other pilots were ready to go [Annotator's Note: Ramage is talking about attacking Japanese aircraft...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for Navy service and was assigned as a radioman on the newly constructed USS Balao (SS...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled getting on the Higgins Boats [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or...

Charles Graves Chauncey was born in April 1923 in Chanute, Kansas. He went through the school system, went to Kansas...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...

Frank Pomroy tells the story of how he and Bill Hollman became friends. He was on Guadalcanal for five months and...

Hugh Wingo was born in August 1918 in South Carolina. When he was 13 years old, they moved to North Carolina. He lived...

Michael Mervosh kept his binoculars in his pack the rest of the battle and he is thankful that he did. About a week...

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Thomas Kolesa to talk about the radar he worked with.] Antiaircraft artillery...

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