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Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Carroll George felt extremely safe [Annotator's Note: in his general quarters station in the engine room aboard the USS...

Romus Valtin Burgin worked with a contact officer from the VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] named Frank...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Leaving Okinawa, Robert Knudson shipped back to San Diego, California in the fall of 1945, then got a 30 day leave. His...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer survived Typhoon Louise on Okinawa, Japan on 9 October 1945.] Some groups rebuilt the...

Among his other responsibilities, Robert Gurr managed several newspaper routes during World War 2. As a paperboy, he...

Fernando Serna was liberated from a prisoner of war camp after the war. He was treated by doctors and nurses following...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

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