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Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The Thresher left port...

Louis Block knew they were going overseas, but they did not know where. The plane before them went to Guam. When they...

Robert Jarvis’ most memorable experience of World War 2 was seeing his brother in Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the...

Oran Harris maintains that after having walked for 67 days, 2,000 people from the Bataan Death March were transferred...

Salvador Perino had flown other aircraft, but the FM-2 Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

William C. Ellzey, a corpsman in the US Navy, evacuated the wounded from Pacific islands and brought them back to the...

Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

Charles Brooks was sent to VT-3 [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 3 (VT-3)] which was forming up on the big island at...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Everett Hyland what he saw from the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...

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