Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Hershel Williams was born and raised in a country atmosphere in West Virginia. His father was in the dairy business....
James Carrington has previously been interviewed by Tom Brokaw and for Oliver North’s War Stories. Carrington was born...
Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...
[Annotators Note: Norman Kleiss starts the interview by reading a narrative about the causes that led up to the Pearl...
Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...
James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...
Lazarick was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1923. In those days Camden was a nice city with many large manufacturing and...
They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] let some of the Red Cross packages go to pot. They would put them in store house...
Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...
Yellin went to witness the ceremony in 2006. He met a few different Japanese soldiers and American military personnel...
When the war started everyone started working with what they had. Merrill's group patrolled up and down the Hawaiian...
They had to go through roll call everyday at the camp. They were all assigned different Japanese numbers. In the...
Quintana believes that it is important that people continue to study and research World War II however he does note...
Mack is the chaplain of the Sixth Marine Division Association. He notes that the ranks are getting very thin. The...
It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...
The last thing Richard Greer and his fellow Marines did before leaving Guadalcanal was to dedicate a cemetery in honor...
The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...
By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...
The general population was preparing, women too, to defend that island. Myers feels that if they did not drop the...
Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...
James understands that movies are made so people think they are interesting. He understands that Hollywood adds its own...
Years later Vejtasa asked Japanese veterans if they had thought about strafing the deck and they said no. Vejtasa would...
Crain believes that it is important to have museums such as The World War II Museum [Annotator's Note: The National...
Jones believes that the raid was important and worth the risk and cost. After the raid the men just kept on going.Jones...
When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...
Another of the Japanese pushers [Annotator’s Note: Japanese guards at POW camps in the Philippines] was called Many...
Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...
Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...
The second day they were run out by the Japanese again [Annotator’s Note: On Okinawa, April 1945]. Deen notes that it...
Crump got to Panteloria and was alongside the dock. All of the German prisoners of war did the work. They were younger...
The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...
Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...
[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...
James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...
They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] called the officer over and told him that the war was over. About a half hour...
The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

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