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[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with Clayton Hall mid-sentence talking about growing up on a farm.] Clayton Hall...

Wiley discussed how the natives found a large canoe that they could use. They filled the holes in the canoe with sap...

When William Goldsborough learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

Being Captured

Ralph Marcarelli had his best experience back in the United States when he entered Seattle [Annotator's Note: Seattle,...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

George Hamilton was assigned to a skeleton crew aboard the USS Orleck (DD-886) in Norfolk, Virginia when he first heard...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

Francis Bucher knows he cannot cover everything in two hours. The Army flew P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40...

Oral History