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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] In 1969, George N. Boutwell...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...

[Annotator's Note: James Muri served in the USAAF as a pilot flying Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers in the 22nd...

In May 1943, Paul Lawrence had technically been the Navy for one year. While at school, he waited tables. Lawrence was...

William “Bill” Knapp learned how tenuous life is and how men can hate each other during the Second World War. Hating is...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph Vater's older brother was old enough to serve, but was married and had a child, so he was not drafted. Vater was...

Their kickoff point was Finschhafen [Annotator's Note: Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea], and when the time came, Leo V....

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

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