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Edward Bruce Jennings was born in December 1924 in Port Arthur, Texas. At his age, children did not worry about the...

David McKinley Blackwell did not stay in New Guinea long. The terrain was mountainous and covered in jungle. From there...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Before...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

Norman Hatch received his orders to the 5th Marine Division while he was still in the United States as his...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Everett Hyland what he saw from the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

Charles Brooks was sent to VT-3 [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 3 (VT-3)] which was forming up on the big island at...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz fired the machine guns [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Patterson (DD-392)] for the first time...

Benjamin Hagans was in Cabanatuan [Annotator’s Note: Cabanatuan, Philippines] for all of 1944 and part of 1945. He...

Charles Watkins Adair was born in Dora, Alabama in 1923. His family moved a lot during the Great Depression [Annotator'...

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