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

Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

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

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

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

William Lutz was born in March 1920. He had three younger sisters, and two younger brothers who served in the Korean...

James Joseph Bollich was born in August 1921 south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster's most memorable experience of World War 2 was hearing the news of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout this clip as he had a stroke and has trouble remembering...

John Foy was born in October 1925 in Rochester, New York, one of the ten children of a plumbing contractor. He came up...

Jack Leaming graduated from radio school on the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] as part of K...

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