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Robert Rans was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1921. Family life was mostly normal until the war started. He worked...

Clarke Langrall was born in December 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up during the Great Depression, things were...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] Conrad D....

Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was working in an office in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania of the United States Steel Corporation...

Vernon Squire was born in a farming community that was a very small town [Annotator's Note: Orland, California]. Being...

Hugh Wingo and his unit trained at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] for a while before they went...

Henry James Bird served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Regiment, 2nd Marine Division [Annotator's Note: Company F...

The cook [Annotator's Note: on the USS LCI(L)-1012] got sick, and one was needed. Harold Ronson put in for it as he had...

Theodore R. Lee grew up with four brothers, and all were in military service during World War 2. His mother did not...

Arnold Horn was born in July 1919 in Luling, Louisiana. He is one of seven boys. Five of them served in World War Two...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow sees the most important lesson of World War 2 as it is related to the costliness of war. War can be...

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