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Marvin Hill had a famous bandleader aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748)]. Eddie Duchin...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...

Most of the combat they [Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson and his fellow Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran returned to the United States and went to the...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...

George Peto had a unique experience there [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa] one time while watching kamikazes hitting...

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