Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Childers, Lloyd Segment 2
Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...
Williams, Hershel "Woody" Segment 2
Hershel Williams was sent to the capitol city of Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina] and from...
Carrington, James Segment 2
[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...
Leisey, Alvin Segment 2
Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...
Kleiss, Norman "Dusty" Segment 2
It was only a storm that allowed the Enterprise [Annotators Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] to not be in Pearl Harbor...
Kuroki, Ben Segment 2
Ben Kuroki’s B-24 outfit was called to North Africa to help out with the British forces who were going against Rommel....
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 2
[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] The...
Lazarick, Len Segment 3
Lazarick knew he was going to the Pacific. In March of 1944 the 96th Division was classified as an amphibious division....
Chuck, Harris Segment 3
Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they...
Phoutrides, Ari Segment 3
The invasion at Ormoc Bay was small and consisted mainly of destroyers and rocket firing landing craft.The Laffey [...
Connick Sr., Harry Segment 3
Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...
Gonzalez, Jesus Segment 3
Gonzales is very glad that he was able to help save a life even though he lost a brother.After Gonzales' brother...
Ferrier, Harry Segment 3
Ensign Earnest said that as he was heading down, he lost elevator control; the stick was loose in his hand. Ensign...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 3
Tyler was 27 or 28 when he went to Hawaii. Hawaii was a pleasant place. There were alerts but Tyler never heard about...
Rogers, Ernest Segment 3
During the initial attack Rogers was in the bushes away from the air field and could see them fly over. That was around...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 3
Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...
Rosen, Harold "Hank" Segment 3
After Harold Rosen was wounded, he went back into action. The shrapnel was embedded and it allowed him to serve, but...
Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 3
Yellin had to fly the next day after he bailed out in the ocean. He notes that the P-40 was a great airplane. There was...
Stinson, Handy Segment 3
As far as a specific routine, they knew what had to be done when they woke up in the morning. The crews were very...
Merrill, Milford "Bud" Segment 3
When Merrill went aboard the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] she was damaged but had been patched up....
Gravois, Francois "F.D." Segment 3
Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...
Blanchard, Robert C. Segment 3
It took Blanchard quite a while to get topside. There was a lot of smoke. The men had to move to get away from it all....
Ichikawa, Grant Segment 3
Grant Ichikawa was assigned to headquarters [Annotators Note: Headquarters, Allied Translator and Interpreter Service...
Church, Ray Segment 3
1 of the men working with Church was hard headed and clearly unhappy with their current predicament. When they were...
Showers, Donald "Mac" Segment 3
In 1942 they began to realize that the Japanese were planning an assault on Port Moresby [Annotator's Note: New Guinea...
Quintana, Ben Segment 3
Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...
Tenney, Lester Segment 3
Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....
De Mers, William Segment 3
The train was moving fast. The train brought them to California. They brought the companies up to full strength. His...
Bishop, Charles Segment 3
For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 3
During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotator’s Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...
Barnes, William Segment 3
William Barnes was aboard USS PC-590 when it was thrown onto the reef which surrounds Midway atoll. After making...
Mack, Frank Segment 3
Mack was attached to the Sixth Marine Division and sent to Guadalcanal for training. The Sixth Marine Division was...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 3
Dupuy remembers a mission to Joliet. They carried two thousand pound bombs on the P-40 [Annotator’s Note: American P-40...
Wahlen, George Segment 3
During the last advance Wahlen was involved in, he was called forward to treat a badly wounded marine [Annotator’s Note...
Woods, Edward Segment 3
When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....

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