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Russell Brien was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but he does not know exactly where he was. He...

Heavyweight champion Joe Louis [Annotator's Note: Joseph Louis Barrow, professional boxer] joined the Army. Samson...

As far as the war was concerned, Arthur Davis claimed, working for the Bureau of Ships was his big adventure. It was a...

When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....

Ray League was introduced into combat when his colonel [Annotator's Note: US Army Colonel William E. Carraway,...

Palermo, Messina and Sicily [Annotator's Note: all in Italy] were very severe targets for Jack Buckner due to the...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Joseph Pilcher was born in March 1925 and at the age of 17, the Army Air Corps allowed him to test for cadet training....

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was born in January 1921 in Clark County, Mississippi, just south of Meridian. He finished high...

Donald G. Watson and his division [Annotator's Note: Watson was a member of the 271st Engineer Combat Battalion, 71st...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

Vernon Brantley got a call that a German tank had been bypassed. He took a crew of four and some anti-tank mines and...

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