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Louis Burg initially wanted to fly planes in the military, but his family did not want him to. His mother tore up his...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

DeMers met her and they danced, talked, and had a good time [Annotators Note: his future wife after returning to the...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

Morton William Werner was born in February 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a middle-class home. His...

Archibald Higgins was in the Palau Islands with the mission of keeping those islands neutralized and flying missions to...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

Robert Swan and three other guys in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44)] rented a house. Each...

Charles Stix took an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to the invasion of Peleliu [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu,...

The interviewer asks Wesley Carroll to discuss his recollections of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

The first board Tyler went before was the Roberts Commission. He also went before army and navy boards. The boards were...

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