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J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

Loren Bennett stayed out at sea for about two or three months after the war was over. He was ready to get out of the...

Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Clarence Wolf Guts already in conversation with the interviewer]. After...

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company were told that the enemy resistance on the island of Tarawa would...

Grant Ichikawa was assigned to headquarters [Annotators Note: Headquarters, Allied Translator and Interpreter Service...

When Morris Semiatin was discharged [Annotator's Note: in February 1946], he wanted to become a photographer, which he...

Vejtasa could see the Lexington on fire but still recovering planes. The Yorktown was also burning but recovering...

Drafted into the Army in 1943, Peter Paret was thrown in with unfamiliar types, and became a fairly solitary man. His...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior headed out to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan,...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

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