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Charles Brooks landed on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] just in time for the attack on the...

Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

Kenneth Wieland does not remember too much about his basic training but recalls there was a lot of marching and time on...

A great number of the troops that were mustered were from the South. Warren J. Haslauer believes the Southern people,...

That attack on the Japanese fleet off Guadalcanal was a turning point in Martin Carmody’s life. He felt bad about...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

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

When Noah Lewis got to Hawaii, there was only one hotel near Waikiki Beach [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii], but he...

At the end of 1943, the Japanese made Bruno S. Rinas and his comrades build an airport outside of Manila [Annotator's...

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

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