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The USS LST-809 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] spent 60 hours unloading its cargo of men, aviation fuel and...

Byron Herbert Meader was born in May 1919 in Ellsworth, Maine. His father worked as a laborer. During the Great...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft Warning, 5th Interceptor Command,...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

Mason Brownell Fitch and his bomber crew [Annotator's Note: of the 504th Bombardment Group] returned from a mission...

Soon after returning home, Philip Mayer went to work and did not use the G.I. Bill for school. He became a truck driver...

[Annotator's Note: The video begins with William Leibold taking the interviewers through a book of photographs. The...

Robert Powers went ashore unopposed at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was in a foxhole with his buddy...

After returning from his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], James W. Metcalf...

The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...

Walter Amoss was interested in Naval aviation but never had much interest in serving in other branches. He passed the...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] to join an accelerated Navy officer...

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