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Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Charles Brooks was sent to Corpus Christie, Texas as a night flight instructor. [Annotator's Note: Brooks was a TBF...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

Mort Oman was sent to New Guinea and joined the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller and trained for...

Thomas Paris was born in Nashville, Tennessee in May 1926. He had one sister. His father was a salesman for Remington....

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] The war gave Malcolm Louis Holleman a...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Arthur Pendleton went to Pavuvu after Cape Gloucester. There, he dealt with a bout of appendicitis which almost killed...

James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...

On 1 July 1943, Louis Burg [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942] was ordered to active duty and...

Robert Philips landed across Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] the first week in August [Annotator's...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were anchored too far away from the surrender ceremony to be...

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