Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Gerard V. Radice thinks that it is important to have institutions like The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in...
Wesley Waggoner remembers the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...
Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...
Paul Fair thinks it is important to teach people about World War Two. Millions of people were killed in the war. It is...
Walter J. Latiolais, Sr has seen the interest in World War 2 become stronger in the last few years. To him, his career...
Walter Bank used the G.I. Bill for graduate school at WPI [Annotator's Note: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in...
Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...
Abraham Rosenzweig is proud of his years of service in the Coast Guard. That feeling has grown over the years. World...
Kenneth Killilea feels strongly that it is important to continue to study World War 2. It is essential that young...
Charles Struble remembers planes [Annotator's Note: of the 421st Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th...
At the end of the war, Chris Carawan said there were thousands of German prisoners that had been taken. The Americans...
George Mouton thinks the war made a man out of him. The war showed people the United States was great and worth...
Howard Hart had no problems invading Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban [Annotator’s Note: The Taliban, which also...
[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] David Lansou believes that the way...
Serving in the Red Cross made Barbara Butler a more forceful and less shy person. It improved her leadership skills and...
Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...
Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. believes he matured from his experience in World War 2. He believes the world is losing its...
Orville Carroll's most memorable experience of World War 2 was going over to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...
Edward Bruce Jennings contracted malaria [Annotator's Note: disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a...
Marvin Hill can recall many anecdotes from his military career, ranging from boot camp to discharge. He had no...
Sidney Grossman remembered the day when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...
John E. Johnson fought in World War 2 because he had to. He was drafted. Johnson acknowledges the war changed his life...
Randolph Daniel feels a review of the past will help educate young people why things turn out the way they do. Everyone...
John Smith was already in the service when the war started and he wanted to get into the fight, but he admits that when...
Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...
Fred Gemmel is proud to have served on the Laffey [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)]. He did not realize it...
On his way back home, Lincoln Piazzo was relieved to be leaving the scene of the war. He admitted that he was...
Robert D. Shaner's most memorable experience of World War 2 was reporting aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-...
Buck Donaldson was headed to LSU [Annotator’s Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. He had a...
Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...
Richard Miralles accepted everything that came to him because he knew he could not change it. They did not talk about...
Being a submariner prepared Billy Grieves for his career as a firefighter. After seeing the worst, everything else is...
Wallace McKay's most memorable experience of the war was going to Japan. It was memorable because of how docile the...
[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior's most memorable...
Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war of the Japanese] left the war feeling that we are all human beings...
The war did not have much of an effect on Walter Jacobs. He has never had a problem talking about it like a lot of guys...

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