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Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] only had black sand in the southern part of the island. Iwo Jima means...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. was born in January 1927. His home was in the Atchafalaya Basin [Annotator's Note: also...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Returning to discuss his other assignments all over the globe, John McGlohon conceded that the Aleutian Islands was not...

Jack D. Owen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he participated in the commissioning of the USS Colusa...

Jack Dye [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS LSM-232] landed at various islands both during the battles...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert "Al" Machaud believes that America...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Richard O'Hara was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1925 and lived there until he was about 15. He considers...

Frank Savage's first duty was to acclimate to the climate and patrol up the coast of New Guinea. The Japanese had moved...

While training as a navigator at Mather Field [Annotator's Note: later Mather Air Force Base; near Sacramento,...

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