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William Barnes served aboard USS PC-590 which was a patrol craft. During the early part of 1942 the navy was desperate...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is background noise throughout this clip.] Not one day goes by...

The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller] took part in the...

William Wayne got out of the hospital and was in the Marine Transit Center in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

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

John "Jack" Raquepau got married about a week after George Bush [Annotator's Note: George H. W. Bush, 41st President of...

The military taught Richard Baile discipline. It also gave him another education. The combination of his college...

Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting. Some of the natives got hold of some hand grenades and...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

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