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[Annotator's Note: The video begins with William Leibold taking the interviewers through a book of photographs. The...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Fred A. Aldridge was born in Orlando, North Carolina. After graduating high school in September 1935 he enlisted in the...

Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Smith left his Mediterranean duty and returned to the US from Oran, Algeria.] He landed in...

Harry McCauley was born in October 1926 in Eunice, Louisiana. His family was poor and worked a small farm during the...

Daniel J. Lennon was born in February 1925 in Vienna, Austria. His father was in graduate school for medicine. They...

While stationed at Wheeler Field [Annotator's Notes: Wheeler Army Airfield, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] with the 14th Pursuit...

Mack Fitzgerald was a Georgian who enlisted in the Army Air Force after the Pearl Harbor attack. He was trained as a...

Russell Mayeur was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1927. His family had a tough time during the Depression...

John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

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