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Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

On one mission, Harry Carlson's aircraft had to land on Iwo Jima due to a lot of flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec was so wrapped up in her schooling [Annotator's Note: in a combined high...

When the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December 1944 to...

Archibald Higgins was in the Palau Islands with the mission of keeping those islands neutralized and flying missions to...

Thomas Wicker was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1923. Growing up during the Great Depression, money was...

[Annotator's Note: The clip begins with Fitzmorris already talking.] James Fitzmorris finished high school and it was...

In the middle of July 1945, Joseph DeMott started seeing Australian Mosquito bombers [Annotator's Note: de Havilland DH...

Walter Douglas was stationed at Pine Castle Air Base [Annotator's Note: Orlando, Florida] and he thought he may be...

James Warren David explains how the LCVPs [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP] loaded up troops...

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