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Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

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

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...

Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...

The Japanese had snipers and other soldiers in the Philippines before the invasion [Annotator's Note: Fall of the...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

Stewart Bass was excited and nervous to fly his first combat mission. He soon calmed down, followed his training and...

Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

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