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On his way back home, Lincoln Piazzo was relieved to be leaving the scene of the war. He admitted that he was...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with someone off camera talking about Orville Bethard seeing kamikaze aircraft...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if, as an American immigrant in the Navy, he was invested in...

Remembering the first patrol he experienced, Olaf Rose said, "It gets hot, and the boats are coming at you." The PT...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Stix served in the US Marine Corps in Company D, 3rd Armored Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine...

Charles Martin was born in August 1922 in Nebraska. He had one brother that died when he was an infant. His father was...

Frank Faust was born in January 1916 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father worked for...

Marine Corps boot camp was not bad for Ed Weber. They needed bodies then, so it was not that bad. Today, boot camp is...

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

Joe G. Casillas was trained as a rifleman in the infantry. He got to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Having survived the sinking of USS Arizona (BB-39) and the subsequent treatment for his burn injuries, Lauren Bruner...

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