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James Lee's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the attack itself [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...

Lionel Baxter served in the 941st Field Artillery in Battery A [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery...

[Annotator's Note: There is loud background noise throughout this clip.] Willie Roy Hebert, hates his first name of...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Daniel Farley tried to enlist in the Marine Corps but they turned him down. He then went to the Army and they took him...

After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...

Lloyd Guillory flew aboard an LB-30 [Annotator's Note: the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator cargo aircraft was a variant of...

Alex Lopez was born in May 1926 in Los Angeles, California, the son of a barber. He grew up in a safe neighborhood...

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

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