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Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was visiting Nagasaki after the atomic bomb [...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

When they [Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen and the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)] arrived at Pearl Harbor the men looked...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

Ed Weber used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted by...

George Joseph Bertucci went to San Diego, California for basic training. After three weeks, he went aboard the USS...

Stewart Bass and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 9 (VT-9)] attacked Japanese supply ships with bombs...

During his time on PT-171, Olaf Rose took instruction from veteran engineers, and gradually got comfortable with his...

Harold Zeringer was a participant in the assault to take the Japanese held island of Okinawa. The invasion took place...

Trinidad Ledesma was drafted into the Army. He went to take his physical and two men in front of him got 4F [Annotator'...

Robert G. Aldous went to Wichita Falls, Texas to Sheppard Field in August [Annotator's Note: August 1943] and it was "...

William Burkett remembers the Philippines as a pretty country. He drove everywhere. He drove a truck to Manila [...

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