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James Connelly made landings on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal Campaign, 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943;...

Harry Watson described the daily routine of the Segundo [Annotator's Note: USS Segundo (SS-398)]. They would surface at...

John Wesley Tatum used a Tommy gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun; while serving in Company H,...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Pedro Parra where he was when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

Jimmie Dyer went through infantry training at Camp Pendleton, California. When he landed at Guadalcanal, where the 6th...

Noah Lewis was drafted and inducted into the Navy in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was examined by military doctors and then...

For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...

Fulton "Jack" Taylor was born in 1925 in Corbin, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: cannot verify town name]. The family...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt's most memorable experience was 7 April [Annotator's Note: 7 April 1945, during Battle of Okinawa...

Serving in the Red Cross made Barbara Butler a more forceful and less shy person. It improved her leadership skills and...

Oral History