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Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...

[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...

Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

George Sakato discusses a Vietnam veteran that edits and tapes oral histories. He recalls that before the attack on...

Antoinette Underwood signed up for the Army a day or two after Pearl Harbor. She had to go to West Point for an...

Carl Caffarel was at Columbia University in New York, taking final exams [Annotator's Note: which were abandoned], when...

Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

Retracing his steps, Ogden Saik recalls that he was in high school and hanging around with the guys in the neighborhood...

Harry Watson described the daily routine of the Segundo [Annotator's Note: USS Segundo (SS-398)]. They would surface at...

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