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In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...

Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....

Joseph LaNier had no training or explanation concerning how to perform as a Seabee [Annotator’s Note: Seabee is a twist...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] was at Indiantown...

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

[Annotator's Note: The video starts with a long conversation before the interview actually starts.] Lester Hecht was...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army’s 246th Ordnance Battalion] only encountered...

Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...

By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...

Earl Dean Browning was on a gun crew in his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

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