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When Harold Lightell arrived off the beaches of Normandy, alarms sounded on his ship. The 600 troops on the ship were...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dominick Frank Poliseno for specific incidents when his interpretive skills...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Siena in the 1990s. Arrow had always been interested in...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

Robert Perry did his Navy boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. He was then sent to...

Debra Stern's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being busy all the time at Camp Shanks [Annotator's Note: in...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Malcolm Louis Holleman was in the infantry...

Siegfried Weinthal was born in February 1929 in Esens, Germany, a small town in Northern Germany. His childhood did not...

Joseph Hartmann did nine to 12 months of duty. The battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) was being commissioned. They all...

William J. Twigger was training on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944]...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

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