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Donald Herbert Shown was with a doctor, chaplain and Marine captain who swam around trying to take care of the wounded...

Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade does not know how World War 2 changed him. After he left the service, he wanted to go back to...

Frank George Memory went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotators’ Note: San Diego, California] and was assigned to...

Church recently made a trip back to Guam and laid a wreath down at the monument for the soldiers killed there during...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Smith where he was when he heard the news of the atomic bombs being...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...

Meda Royce Hall and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Composite Squadron 68 (VC-68) aboard the USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)]...

Ernest Cowell was born in January 1927 in Los Angeles, Hollywood [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles, California]. His...

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