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Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer attempts to tie Selwyn Gilmore's work on Guam, Mariana Islands to his work in oil...

James Bowie used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted...

Carlos Reed does not think about his service much. He has memories of the war, but he does not think it made a...

John "Jack" Raquepau guesses that outside of the Revolution [Annotator's Note: American Revolutionary War, or, American...

Robert D. Shaner was born in February of 1924 in Porterville, California and grew up during the Depression [Annotator's...

The Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, referred to as the Zeke or Zero] was tough to...

In 1942 they began to realize that the Japanese were planning an assault on Port Moresby [Annotator's Note: New Guinea...

Paul Ignatius was assigned to Composite Squadron 80 (VC-80) aboard the USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) as the squadron’s...

James Warren David believed that World War 2 was a patriotic war and people were very positive at the time. The war...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa was on Kauai, Hawaii with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

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