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Wallace Hurley was discharged as a Private First Class in 1946. He never used the G.I. Bill for education because he...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: after being drafted into the Army in late 1943] was first stationed...

Charles Martin was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator’s Note: in Oceanside, California] when they formed the 1st Amphibious...

Harvey Lee Bishop [Annotator’s Note: pilot in the 457th Fighter Squadron, 506th Fighter Group in the Pacific Theater of...

For Dracos Burke, the Nuremberg trials were fascinating, because he was interested in the law. President Roosevelt [...

Bernard Peters still has some of the daily news sheets they put out regarding the war. They had to zig-zag [Annotator's...

[Annotator’s Note: Construction vehicles can be heard in the background throughout the segment, as well as someone in...

Thomas Houdek was born in Detroit, Michigan in March 1926, the youngest of six children. His father was a tool and die...

Howard Ricks reached the island of Iwo Jima and discovered that the Japanese opposition was nearly invisible. Their...

A typical day aboard ship for Martin Jacobson consisted of reading and PT [Annotator's Note: physical training] on the...

When Warren Nolan first boarded the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) he thought it was massive. He watched the first flight...

Allen Pedersen remembers 23 January [Annotator's Note: 23 January 1944] and the landing at Anzio Beach as his most...

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