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Benjamin Hagans did not talk to people about his wartime experience for a long time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...

Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

After he returned to the United States, Robert Lents took a test to go to officers' school, but after he passed, he...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Charles Kneflin what his personal reaction was to the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland was hospitalized after being wounded on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...

Harold “Hal” Leith was given a good rank [Annotator’s Note: in March, 1946, as an employee of the SSU, or Strategic...

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