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Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...

Guy Stern had come to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1937 when he was 15 years old to escape Nazi Germany. He tried, but...

Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...

Perry Smith saw the Second World War as a turning point for the United States. No longer could the nation back out of...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins mid-conversation.] Robert Payne was born in February 1924 in Wichita Falls,...

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

Louis Smith recalled that he was inducted 26 February 1943, wounded on Iwo Jima 26 February 1945, and quit smoking...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Raymond Cauble if he recalls where he was when he heard the news of the...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

Chester Biernacki and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Helena (CL-50)] were on the way to Guadalcanal when they met up...

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