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Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...

Louis J. Armentaro thinks that maybe he could have gotten someone killed, but he had to have his sense of decency....

John Nicholas went into the service in September 1943. His half brother George was already in the Navy. Nicholas went...

Richard O'Hara's most memorable experience of World War 2 was sailing into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor...

Joe G. Casillas was born in San Pedro, California in October 1925. He grew up around Pacoima [Annotator's Note: Pacoima...

Selwyn Gilmore came back to the United States aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced...

Theodore Robert Tanner thinks himself very fortunate that he never needed to target human beings, and instead dropped...

Edward Bale became a Vice President of a Dallas banking firm following his retirement from the Marine Corps. The...

Mitchell Zimmer and the USS Snapper (SS-185) had multiple war patrols while using faulty torpedoes. Most of their...

Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Austin H. Kiplinger was born in 1918 and raised in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding regions in Virginia and...

Oral History