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Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

Wiley was put into a shack and slept the night there. That night he met the Chief of the tribe and was taken to a...

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

James J. Hill flew the F4F Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft] which was the best, until...

The Army assigned Arthur George Green to the 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. Green was taught how to...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

Teddy [Annotator's Note: Lieutenant Theodore "Teddy" Keller, Gravois' future brother-in-law] and Gravois trained in New...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

Ed Weber is proud to have been in the Marine Corps. He loves his country and the Marine Corps. It upsets him greatly to...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

Fiske Hanley II was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas. The Hanley family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, then...

After serving aboard the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke DD-4156)], Claude Bufford Shaw was assigned to the Bullard...

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