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Joseph Brannan had never ridden on a PT boat [Annotator's Note: Patrol Torpedo boat] prior to his assignment to his...

John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...

William Burkett was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in November 1925. He had three...

James Warren David recalled a time while he was in Pool Boat 12 when a Chaplain and local representative wanted to go...

[Annotator's Note: Glen Kuskie was a rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Division...

Wallace McKay was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he joined the USS Pollux (...

The navy commander leading the Hornet's [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet, CV-8] air group was responsible for the deaths...

Thomas Kolesa got married. He went to Edwardsville [Annotator's Note: Edwardsville, Illinois] and his mother was crying...

[Annotator’s Note: The video begins with interviewee talking about how he wanted to write a book and working with a...

Harold Long married his wife during his time in college while working on his master's in accounting. After the war, he...

Ed Weber used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted by...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

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