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Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Walter Bud Gafford was present on the morning of 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

After a brief stay on Saipan, David Fisher and his crewmates were sent to Guam to join the 39th Bomb Group, 314th Bomb...

Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine and served on Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of cargo ship...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

When DeMers was wounded [Annotators Note: on New Guinea] he was taken by the aid men to the regimental aid station....

Gerry Jones trained with the United States Marines, joining the Scout and Sniper Company at Camp Elliott [Annotator's...

It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war]. Emmett Kaylor...

After he graduated from school in 1941, Frank M. Heuer Sr. went to work for Higgins Industries [Annotator’s Note: in...

Archie Kelley admired Rickover [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover; nicknamed Father of the Nuclear...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the Army as a radio...

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