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Making her way alone, Virginia Wilterdink arrived at Camp Devens in Massachusetts to begin her military career. She met...

William Burkett was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] was not hard...

Harold Jones [Annotator's Note: deployed to the Pacific in May 1944 with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th...

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

After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...

After spending months trying to kill Japanese, Oran Harris now had to live with them. He felt sorry for the civilians,...

One of Curtis Winfred Wise's brothers was in the service. They did not talk much about it. He did talk to his parents...

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

When Alfred Dearman would come on duty for the morning shift as a jailer, the midnight shift would have had the...

James Billingsley was on patrol one night in Japan. He went into a train station and there was nothing there, but kids...

Marvin Martin served at the end and immediately after World War 2. He had several friends who were eager to join the...

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