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William Cart was born in April 1922 in Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina]. He grew up on the...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

Charles Dragich saw burials every day [Annotator’s Note: while a prisoner of war of the Japanese at Camp O’Donnell in...

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

Norman Hatch filmed the battle on Tarawa with black and white 35mm film, but most of the rest of his photographers shot...

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

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

The smell over Tokyo during that night bombing mission [Annotator's Note: the 24 and 25 May 1945 fire bombing mission]...

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

Frank Pomroy tells the story of how he and Bill Hollman became friends. He was on Guadalcanal for five months and...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

When John H. Cole got home, he returned to the farm and realized it was not the way he would make his living. He tried...

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