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William Isham Davis was born in Topeka, Kansas in March 1921. His father worked in a large furniture store and Jack...

Although Archibald Higgins thought he would fly home. That did not happen. He sailed on a ship from Manila. The voyage...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Upon receiving his...

World War 2 gave Thomas Wicker more experience in dealing with people. His most memorable experience was the torpedoing...

James Fitzmorris was accepted into Officer Candidate School and went to Camp LeRoy Johnson in New Orleans, Louisiana....

Helen Gagel did not keep up with what was going overseas while on duty in the United States. One of her brothers was...

James Warren David believed that World War 2 was a patriotic war and people were very positive at the time. The war...

On one raid, Bernard Smith remembers a plane behind them burst into flames. His first reaction was that it was pretty....

Anderson Wilson enlisted in Jackson, Mississippi in September 1942. He went to Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note:...

Besides the atomic tests, F. Lincoln Grahlfs found other work to do while at Bikini Atoll [Annotator's Note: Bikini...

Louis Liberato had never experienced death before he went to Europe. He was loaded into a boxcar [Annotator's Note:...

James Billingsley encountered quite a bit of Japanese resistance going up Highway 17 [Annotator's Note: now Emilio...

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