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Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

Glenn Frazier loaded on a Japanese freighter with 49 other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] on 20 October 1942...

Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...

Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...

After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...

That was as close as Emmett Kaylor ever came to getting hit [Annotator's Note: during a Japanese attack in the...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. had a good life aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)]. He had multiple...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran was born in the Bronx, New York in March 1924. [...

James Smith feels there are parts of World War 2 that can be pretty instructive to the future. He believes that with...

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