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[Annotator’s Note: Talking and other noises are audible in the background of this segment.] After the Americans secured...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Ralph Boyer has many memorable experiences of World War 2. He fought because it was necessary for everyone to do their...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. was able to cope and made stronger [Annotator's Note: by being underestimated by people...

He still wanted to be an engineer, so Henry Mahier worked hard to get his degree, while working various civilian jobs....

John Cassidy recalled a regular day in his division included an early rise, a shower, breakfast and "quarters" which...

Tsuyin Soong did not encounter any Japanese soldiers until after the war ended. There were a lot of Japanese soldiers...

Richard Yavenue and and his unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] started...

Gerard Dillon was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in January 1920. His mother was a...

In early June [Annotator's Note: June 1944] Edward Driscoll's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Franklin (CV-13)] was held in...

Shows were important to George Colburn. Eddie Bracken [Annotator's Note: Edward Vincent Bracken, American entertainer]...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

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