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Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

Howard Robert Charles [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the other prisoners soon found their clothes were...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] to join an accelerated Navy officer...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] In...

Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were with Admiral Spruance [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Raymond...

Fred Bergeron was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1923. Custom dictated that the mother would be taken care of...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was assigned to the USS Patterson (DD-392) docked in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk's first combat experience was at...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] Before VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over...

Loren Bennett stayed out at sea for about two or three months after the war was over. He was ready to get out of the...

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