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James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Wallace McKay was born in May 1925 on a snowy morning in Brainerd, Minnesota. He grew up on a farm outside the city as...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Robert E. McGovern was never in any combat while he was in the Philippines because he arrived soon after World War 2...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...

After cutting himself badly on coral in the Marshall Islands, Ed Weber was put on a hospital ship [Annotator's Note: 31...

Burton Johnson organized POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camps by first getting the engineers to establish a...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] In March 1946, George N....

Pearson Riddle was born in Pensacola, North Carolina and grew up in the country. His father had a farm of about 120...

Claude Shannahan lives in Harrison Township. He draws a pension from Chrysler but worries how long that will last with...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

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