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During the first night they [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the other survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]...

Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...

For the first battle of the Matanikau, James Smith and the Raiders were going to go up the river and 1st Battalion, 7th...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

John E. Johnson was born in Houston, Mississippi in December 1926, and lived there until he was six years old. During...

Benjamin Hagans was on a PT boat [Annotator’s Note: patrol torpedo boat] that brought MacArthur [Annotator's Note:...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). The Samuel B....

Melvin Munch had a 15 day leave following his basic training in the United States Navy. It took four days each way for...

Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewee has trouble understanding the interviewer's questions during this clip.] Aloysius "...

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