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Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow was born in Mineral...

When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

Richard Micklich recalls the relief and happiness he felt on VE Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...

Edward Lalande returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] in a convoy. He had been in Oran [Annotator's...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster's most memorable experience of World War 2 was hearing the news of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Albert Sieck was born in Norfolk, Nebraska in October 1921. He graduated from high school in 1939 and found a job...

James L. Wheeler was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1926. His father was a dairy man, and his mother was...

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