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[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

It is important to study and learn about World War 2 as well as World War 1 [Annotator's Note: global war originating...

Hopkins was aboard the Hornet when they were under attack. It was quite an attack. The first few bombs knocked out the...

Selwyn Gilmore came back to the United States aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced...

Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Yukio Kawamoto was able to witness the battle [Annotator's Note: the battle of Hill 700 on Bougainville]. The division...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

William Ward Crawford was born in 1914 in Akron, Ohio. He was aware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

After his discharge from the Army in August 1945, Richard Hebert, Sr. came home and attended Springhill College in...

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