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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Wicklund how he ended up in the Army.] John Wicklund explains that during...

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

While on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman saw two Zeros [Annotator's Note: Japanese...

The day after this last action there was hardly anyone left in Jack Houston's company [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd...

[Annotator's Note: Dr. Robert Beynon was serving aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) when it survived an attack by a...

William Lutz knew the enemy was in front of them. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Japanese on Guam]. He did...

Ralph Weymouth graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1938. He was 12 years and old living in northwest Seattle in 1929...

Charles Brooks would have breakfast before dawn onboard the ship. He would then look to see his assignment for the day...

Edward Riedl felt that if they did not kill, they would be killed themselves. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period...

Each regiment had a book with pictures in it. When the war was over, Thomas J. Smith, Junior felt like a curtain came...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

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