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James Gaffney never spotted any Japanese while patrolling Bougainville. They did observe and report a bright light on...

Frank Savage was sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama. His aunt made a uniform for him so he could arrive with something...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

When the USS Foote (DD-511) got to Pearl Harbor, Wilbur Rogers remembered they stripped the 20mm off its fan tail and...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

Each regiment had a book with pictures in it. When the war was over, Thomas J. Smith, Junior felt like a curtain came...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison was a member of the US Marine Corps 1st Raider Battalion.]Edson [Annotators Note: US...

Vernon Micheel was born and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college in Ames [Annotator's Note: Ames, Iowa] and...

Lloyd Guillory was sent to Japan near Kanagawa two weeks after the war ended. Things were disorganized. The squadron [...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

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