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Paul Sartori Jr.’s father was an immigrant from northern Italy. They were carriage makers and blacksmiths. His father...

Ralph C. Franklin attended Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York] graduate school. He thought...

Charles Nathan Lane was born in Carryville, Arkansas in June 1919. Lane recalls the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...

Eugene Tarrant went to join the military when he was 18. He was in good shape, about 175 pounds. A sergeant asked him...

When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

[Annotators Note: Interview begins with Frank Guidone and the interviewer talking about Guidone contracting malaria and...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Rex James Bates was assigned to the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. The squadron...

Ray Dennis Irby stayed overseas from 1943 until December 1945. He was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] when...

Albert Yamamoto was born in 1927 in Seattle, Washington. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the...

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