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Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....

Edward Riedl remembers that Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was different than Leyte [Annotator's Note:...

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

Rosamund Naylor was at home listening to the radio when she heard the speech about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Day...

Wesley S. Trindal was with Company F, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He was born in Superior, Wisconsin...

President Harry S. Truman was convinced to come to the west coast [Annotators Note: to award Hawk with the Medal of...

After moving inland following the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

Gowan Duffy remembers they started to run out of supplies. Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George...

Clinton Gardner never thought of his own death but watched a few hundred men die. Gardner got sick and threw up around...

Bernard Knese took off around midnight and crossed the Channel [Annotator’s Note: the English Channel]. They arrived in...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Assigned as a gunner in the...

Harold Baumgarten continues his account of what he did on D-Day at Dog Green Sector [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France...

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