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William Pierce recounts the lack of success for the 37mm gun in Europe. He discusses a Marine Medal of Honor recipient...

Being Captured

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...

Victor K. Carman got to Japan on 1 August 1945. The bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Fulton Taylor chose the United States Navy because service there appealed to him. His older brother was already in the...

Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Gravois didn't get any sleep during the 2 nights he was on Tarawa. The Japanese tried to infiltrate their lines, but...

Frank Stewart was in the hospital on Espiritu Santos. After about ten days, he decided to go down the hall to the...

Ira Schilling is a proud American and a proud veteran of World War 2 and thinks that the existence of The National WWII...

Lyle Mitchell wanted to stay working for the Navy after the war, but they cut his pay. He went back to Rochester [...

Oral History