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William S. “Bill” Beamish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1923 and grew up in nearby Wellesley Hills. His father,...

William Scott Stroud and his crew carried out 39 strategic bombing missions. [Annotator's Note: Having been shot down...

The United States came together in the Second World War, Edward Allesandro said, and he is sure that the soldiers'...

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Walter Broll became more cautious as a result of his experience at Bari, Italy with the German bomber attack on Allied...

George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vaughn Whitworth if he experienced racism from other Marines while serving in...

[Annotator's Note: A person appears in the background throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus was born in Bridgeville,...

Ira Schilling and most of his comrades in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment changed a great deal after the...

James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....

When the 12 ships in his squadron hit Diamondhead [Annotator's Note: the volcanic crater on Oahu, Hawaii], 6 went south...

Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was slightly...

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