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  • Deen, Braswell Segment 13

    The discipline in the Marine Corps helped to make Deen’s life successful.

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 2

    When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike.

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 3

    They would get up at four in the morning on Pavavu. They were in King (K) Co.

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 4

    They got on three different ships to haul the First Marine Division on August 25th [Annotator’s Note: 1944].

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 5

    Deen was supposed to follow Bill Thompson [Annotator’s Note: during the invasion of Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. He was the group leader.

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 6

    The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu, September 1944].

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 7

    Deen recalls thinking how lucky he was that he was not killed on the first day [Annotator’s Note: 15 September 1944 on Peleliu].

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 8

    Deen believes the mortar team helped to save the men at the point [Annotator’s Note: on Peleliu, September 1944].

  • Deen, Braswell Segment 9

    Bill Jenkins saved Deen's life on the first day [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu, 15 September 1944].

  • DeForest, Harold Battle of Manila and Being Wounded

    When they left Clark Field, Harold DeForest's Company A [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infant

  • DeForest, Harold Combat on Luzon

    [Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th Infantry Regiment, 37th

  • DeForest, Harold Encounters with the Local Population

    [Annotator's Note: This segment begins with Harold DeForest talking to the interviewer about his son in law who was murdered in Detroit severa

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