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Sidney Philips was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up on Georgia Avenue in midtown. Eugene [Annotators Note...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell’s most...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

Attack on 23 October 1944

Frederick Haack was flying off the coast of Taiwan [Annotator's Note: with the 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433rd Troop...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

Ferrier did not like the way they were awarding flight orders to the crewman. Ferrier made his boss well aware of that...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior's most memorable...

Thomas Lusco Sr. remembers that at night, there were dogfights between the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51...

Mitchell Zimmer was born in Detroit but moved to Yugoslavia which was Austria-Hungary before World War 1. His mother...

Mack was going to bring his carbine home with him. He put it in his sea bag and had all of his stuff packed around it....

William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. War patrol became an everyday...

Oral History