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John Stiles boarded the USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145). It was a troop ship and it was an interesting experience....

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. During his overseas...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...

After being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila, Philippines], people were...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Sidney Philips remembers the Marines bringing the amphibious tank up the creek from the beach. It was just sitting...

[Annotator's Note: This interview was conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

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