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Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

Thomas Tizzard was stationed on ships in the South Pacific. Supplies came from Australia and once could not contact the...

Giles Bacon was with the Marine Raiders [Annotators Note: 2nd Marine Raider Battalion] for six months. He had enough of...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Malcolm Louis Holleman returned to...

Charles Bruce was 17 years old when he drove a truck for work. He got a ticket for speeding. He had to pay 20 dollars....

James Patterson started flying missions to take photographs of the islands. [Annotator’s Note: Patterson talks about...

Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

Monroe Scherer was shipped out to California where he visited some relatives and friends. He then went by troop ship to...

Benjamin Carson assessed the battle for Bougainville to be unique in the sense that the intent was not to capture the...

Charles Stix was born in March 1925. His great-grandfather came to Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] from...

Charles Womack was born in October 1922 and grew up in McComb, Mississippi. His parents were divorced and his father...

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