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Mort Oman was sent to New Guinea and joined the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller and trained for...

They [Annotator's Note: Louis Zamperini, his pilot and their tail gunner] spent 47 days fighting off sharks, the...

Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...

Paul Ignatius was born in Glendale, California in November 1920. He is very proud of his hometown because many famous...

When Harold Long graduated from Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts], he was...

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

James J. Hill took all the Marine courses with no problem [Annotator's Note: during Marine Corps boot camp in late 1941...

Frank Pantuso's most memorable experience from World War 2 is the realization of the "reality of war; of knowing that...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

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

Fermer Kellogg learned to swim, survive jumping in a burning pool, handle a rifle and march while training [Annotator's...

Jack Linscott remembers that the Liberty ships [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ships] were not...

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