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John Bradley [Annotator's Note: born in Manila, Philippines to an American father and Australian mother in 1936] cannot...

William Smith was in Australia for about two weeks. They pulled some shenanigans. He and his crew were sent to Brisbane...

Returning to his experiences earlier in his Navy career, Lauren Bruner discusses particulars about his first ship, the...

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Clark Wackerman was born in March 1926 in Brighton, New York, the oldest of three children. His father worked as a...

Francis Borrell was woken up early one morning and was told about the Japanese surrendering. Everyone was celebrating,...

William Lutz left his unit when there was no shooting. It was as if the war had stopped. He just kept walking. The...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

[Annotator's Note: There is white noise throughout this clip.] James L. Lowder's older brother was working in the...

Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

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