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Within a day of arriving at the submarine base James Allen was given orders to report to the USS Wahoo (SS-238). He...

Ben Ray Bost is the only veteran left alive of the men on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316]. He was born in...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was in high school in 1941 in Ozona [Annotator's Note: Ozona, Texas]. They were shocked [...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

According to Peter Paret, the great Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz tried to understand war with a...

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Edward Bale went to Okinawa at the beginning of the assault as part of a deception force that did not land. The 2nd...

Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...

Fulton Taylor was deployed on a Liberty Ship to the Pacific after his assignment to ACORN 8 [Annotator's Note: Aviation...

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