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Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...

Louis John Walter departed New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] on the James Smith [Annotator's Note: SS...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

Black hoods were placed on the heads of William Leibold and the others [Annotator's Note: the other survivors of the...

Richard Keller did not see too much of Hill 700 but he had a friend named Sid Goodkin, the commander of Company G [...

Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...

Ernest Cowell thinks being on shore in the Army is different from being at sea in the Navy. In the Navy, he did not...

Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...

Fulton Taylor was deployed on a Liberty Ship to the Pacific after his assignment to ACORN 8 [Annotator's Note: Aviation...

Sterling Cale was assigned to recover the dead from the Arizona [Annotator's Note: USS Arizona (BB-39)] after the...

At war's end, Gerry Jones was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] preparing to invade mainland Japan. They...

James Oney cannot think of anything that exciting that stands out [Annotator's Note: about his service in World War 2...

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