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Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

Jack Vandervort was sent to basic training again. [Annotator's Note: Lawton discusses the reasons in the clip titled "...

Firman Balza was sent to the west coast, and on Easter Sunday, 13 April 1941, he went aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)...

Robert Fulton and the USS Houston (CA-30) and the HMAS Perth ran into a Japanese landing force late on the night of 28...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

Adjustment to military life was only difficult at first for Ira Milan; for a couple of weeks he was lonesome, as were...

Russell Mayeur worked for his father-in-law after his discharge from the Merchant Marine following the war. The intent...

On 2 October [Annotator's Note: 2 October 1944], Angelo Joseph Spinato and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 4th...

Lawrence Winnier did not stay in touch with anyone after the war. He has one grandson, three granddaughters, and two...

In 1947, after being liberated from Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau; first concentration camp; Dachau, Germany] just...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William McCowen to discuss a comparison of his nuclear bomb missions in the...

Paul Pizzolongo was a medic in the medical detachment of Battery B, 991st Field Artillery Battalion, 258th Field...

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