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The SS Lurline, on which Virginia Wilterdink was traveling, stopped in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]...

Jack Pierce remembers getting to Kwajalein Island [Annotator’s Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] after they had...

The first couple times Arthur Killam was depth charged it was a little hairy but he does not recall getting too upset...

The Laffey was in a rough state. She had been hit a number of times from a number of direction. Everything from the...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

William Lutz hear about the Japanese torturing the Americans. When he returned home, he read about the atrocities...

Edward Driscoll was born in January 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sixth of 13 children. His father was a city...

After he landed in Noumea, New Caledonia, Olaf Rose, his brother, and some other guys who had traveled together on the...

[Annotator’s Note: Video and audio do not sync up throughout segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt said that her experience...

After going aboard they were given some soap and a half a towel [Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey and many of the other...

John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...

Harry McKnight arrived at Sugar Loaf Hill [Annotator's Note: a part of the Japanese defensive line known as the Shuri...

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