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Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

Mack has had a good life. He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for thirty five years. He retired in 1981. His...

John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51] bombed Clark Field [...

Gerald Kynett could run 20 to 25 word a minute using signal. After stopping at Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetok...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez became a lawyer after the war. In Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina...

Buck Donaldson went to Portland to get ready to go to Manila, the Philippines. Before they got there, the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Everett Hyland had gone back to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the 1960s and 1980s as a tourist. He thinks of Pearl Harbor...

Orville Carroll is glad he was not in combat. Two of his brothers were in the armed services as well, in Germany, but...

Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

Melvin Munch was introduced to the Navy in boot camp in San Diego. It was rough. Getting up early each morning to begin...

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