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Robert Hammond had to deal with his own health when he was on leave in Philadelphia. He had an appendectomy, and while...

Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...

Tenney's first contact with the Japanese was on the morning of the 10th [Annotators Note: April 10, 1942] in a bivouac...

[Annotator’s Note: This segment is a duplicate of the previous segment entitled “Married Life.”] Gerald Wayne Lux met...

Paul Sparacino was born in July 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. His father drove a log truck. They moved to Alexandria,...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

Frederick Haack and about nine others were put in a big, steel cylinder [Annotator's Note: during high-altitude, pilot...

[Annotator’s Note: the interview start is preceded by a brief discussion by Donald Herbert Shown of his five years...

Irwin Schneider was injured on a PT boat patrol out of Milne Bay [Annotator’s Note: in Papua New Guinea]. He went to...

Marion Labauve went to New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] because he was going to be stationed in...

Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

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