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Paul J. Murphy was born in Chillicothe, Missouri. He graduated from high school in 1943 and was immediately drafted...

Ira Schilling is a proud American and a proud veteran of World War 2 and thinks that the existence of The National WWII...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] In August 1943, Leo Bednarczyk sailed down the...

They had a couple of rainy days in April [Annotator's Note: April 1945] but the rains got heavy after Lazarick left. He...

The first island the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) approached was Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands], and...

When they were heading to Tonga, Fred Bergeron and the rest of his air group were dropped off in Fiji. They flew some...

The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

Floyd James Reissig was drafted in May 1944. He was allowed to choose his service after his physical. He was not...

The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...

Thomas Crosby remembered soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they attacked the Philippines. Using...

Walter Amoss was interested in Naval aviation but never had much interest in serving in other branches. He passed the...

Sterling Cale was sent to Korea near Pusan while the rest of the transferred troops went to Sasebo, Japan. He was with...

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