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Wahlen said he hesitated talking about the war when he came home, but sometimes the pressure was put on him to talk....

The war soon came to an end, and the Navy did not know what to do with Dennis Allen Andrews except send him to school....

They ended up at Camp Custer. DeMers had been getting promoted this entire time. He made 1st Sergeant by 1940. They...

A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...

They [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division] went into Mindanao [...

Norman Hatch disembarked his ship in Nagasaki Harbor to begin the occupation of Japan and immediately saw the...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

For Kenneth Dwight Wells, the most difficult part of fighting against the Japanese on Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was sent to...

Walter Bowsher made his first arrest while he was in the Army. He was serving as a temporary military policeman when he...

The Second World War experience that stands out most in Mark Brannon's mind was being on a destroyer, a position that...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is background noise throughout this clip.] After his mission on...

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