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M. Edward Melton was born in Henderson, Kentucky in June 1925. He had a happy childhood. They had no money, but neither...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

Henry Schaller was born in April 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended school there until he went to college. His...

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

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

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

In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

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

Richard Edward Gile was born in Buffalo, New York in March 1923. He recalled the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Hillman James Prestridge was born in September 1924 in Cragford, Alabama, a small town of about 400 people. He had one...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

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

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