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James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] slept under the elevated barracks [Annotator's Note: after...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was on Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands with the 1st Marine Division]. He never...

Keith Renstrom felt like he had too much responsibility to stay with his men [Annotator's Note: even after being...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

During Donald Dean's career in the Navy, the thing he enjoyed most was sailing along a nice smooth sea when he was off...

Donald Stratton recalls that none of the men were sleeping [Annotator's Note: when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Clayton Fisher volunteered to fly an SB2A Brewster [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber] and lead...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Arthur Pendleton does not recall to much more about Cape Gloucester. There was nothing pleasant about it and he was...

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