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Noah Lewis was born in March 1925 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He had a normal life growing up. His mother was a house...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] felt...

Albert Simon was at Woodpecker Ridge in Luzon [Annotator’s Note: Luzon, the Philippines]. They landed on Leyte Island [...

Floyd Annas was called back to active duty for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] but did not...

Marvin Hill had a famous bandleader aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748)]. Eddie Duchin...

Harold Buell attended Parsons College in Iowa [Annotator's Note: Fairfield, Iowa] on an athletic scholarship. He was an...

The first treatment Carroll Harris received was heat lamps on his legs. However, his legs and feet began blistering, so...

Wim de Jonge's Japanese captors disrespected the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. Prisoners would be beaten...

[Annotator's Note: The video begins with William Leibold taking the interviewers through a book of photographs. The...

Milton Fernandez left the Galapagos Islands and sailed for Hawaii. At that time, the Japanese were everywhere in the...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

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