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James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...

Glenn Frazier heard Tokyo Rose broadcast to the defenders of the Philippines that no reinforcements were on the way. [...

Burton Johnson arrived in Finschafen, New Guinea in the South Pacific after completing his stateside training. This was...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Ray Emory very clearly remembers that he was sitting on the bottom of a three...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Roger Shaw was 22 years old when he returned to the United States. When he got back to the United States, he went up...

Bill Jenkins saved Deen's life on the first day [Annotators Note: Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. The men were busy...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about Nasugbu, Philippines.] They came out of Luzon [...

About a month before the Battle of Midway the skipper decided to assign crews. The chief radioman asked if anyone had a...

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