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James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...

David McKinley Blackwell did not stay in New Guinea long. The terrain was mountainous and covered in jungle. From there...

Robert M. Solomon was on deck when they got a submarine. He had to hold on, or he would have gone overboard when the...

Frank H. O'Leary took a job as the clothing quartermaster at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

While Paul Bannai was in Japan, he knew his family would be able to leave their internment camp. He was given...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

Stewart W. Robinson recalls the time the flight deck of the USS Hornet (CV-12) was strafed by Japanese fighters and his...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about the weapons he carried.] A little short rifle [Annotator's...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] associated...

William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

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