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In 1953 Thomas Crosby enlisted in the Navy. He was competing as a diver for the University of Hawaii and attending...

Willis Mills returned to the United States aboard a ship and docked at Oakland [Annotator’s Note: Oakland, California...

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

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

When Frank Pryor left Hawaii, he was sent to Japan instead of the mainland [Annotator's Note: the United States...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

The US Navy had planes ready to help out at Wake Island but the admiral in charge figured that it was going to be too...

Alvin von Frisch was born in Giessen, Germany in 1920. He began his education there but he, his mother, two sisters,...

Benjamin Hagans remembers they were in the sea and the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese]...

[Annotator’s Note: Video and audio do not sync up throughout segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt said that her experience...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

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