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Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

[Annotator’s Note: Speaking is audible in the background through this segment.] In February 1945, Leander Bubrig [...

Dale Bates was born in Salem, Oregon in January 1924. Bates’ father worked in the banking industry and, as such, the...

Walter Broll was told by one of the officers on the Grace Abbott that he should go to the English aid station at the...

[Annotator’s Note: Someone is coughing in the background throughout this segment.] Willie D. Knippers was born in Pike...

Chuck recalls being stripped naked with his hands locked behind his head. The Japanese would hit them with a giant...

One night, Floyd James Reissig called general quarters while sailors were sleeping on the deck. There was an...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

The Japanese commander of the camp, stood up on a platform and spoke in Japanese with an interpreter, and says, "The...

Alfred Rodrigues identified Japanese aircraft by the large circles on their wings. It was Sunday and he had just sat...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Nimocks Foyle Ladner already in conversation with the interviewer.] Ladner...

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