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Harold DeForest landed in New Caledonia and was sent to a replacement center. There, he and another guy volunteered to...

Harold Whitaker went back to March Air Force Base [Annotator's Note: when he returned to the United States in December...

When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...

Joseph Vater's older brother was old enough to serve, but was married and had a child, so he was not drafted. Vater was...

Robert L. Rorschach was a member of the radar crew on the Pickaway [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] which was...

Thomas Tizzard was on the USS Helena (CL-50) when it was hit by torpedoes ans sunk on 6 July 1943 [Annotator's Note:...

When he got out of the military, David Heath used the G.I. Bill. Before the war, he worked in a garage overhauling...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan became a...

[Annotator's Note: Jacklyn Lucas served in the Marine Corps in Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

Thomas Francis Schicker had his 19th birthday at Ulithi. He became friends with Leo Schmidtkin [Annotator's Note:...

Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

Adolfo V. Celaya heard men who seemed to know each other [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

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