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After joining the Navy, Douglas Holmes Blair was assigned to the USS Hampden County (LST-803). The crew left New...

Kenneth Killilea was climbing up a mountain on Saipan when he and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd...

Thomas Tizzard was assigned to the USS Denver (CL-58) and was interviewed by an officer asking what his previous jobs...

Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson became the skipper [Annotator's Note: captain, or commander] of his boat. A graduate of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine began attending school in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: the Santo Tomas...

Floyd James Reissig arrived at the Harry Lee [Annotator's Note: USS Harry Lee (APA-10)] a week and a half before he...

Albert G. Sutcliffe was sent to Pearl Harbor's [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] in preparation for going to the...

William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

Lyle Mitchell met his wife while he was in school at RIT [Annotator’s Note: Rochester Institute of Technology in...

Oral History