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John Ream remembers that in December 1944, the Japanese decided to move them. [Annotator’s Note: the Japanese were...

John Nicholas first experienced an aerial attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)] a few months...

Robert Erskine Hendrick's [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th Marine Defense Battalion] father [Annotator's Note:...

Ellis Whaley spent a lot of time talking to his boys before they got off their ship [Annotator's Note: during the...

On 19 February 1945, Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a first class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction...

William H. Greason was born in September 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. The middle child of five, Greason credits his...

While on watch duty [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Aldebaran (AF-10)], Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade studied the stars....

On the 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1942] they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. The men were all excited...

Leon Williamson grew up in Tecumseh, Michigan. He attended school in the town, then went to Michigan State College [...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Oral History