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Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...

Another frightening experience Gravois had was during the Battle of the Matanikau River. For the battle they [Annotator...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

Melvin C. Whitman was born and raised in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. In high school, his...

Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

After Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown, CV-5] left Pearl Harbor for Midway she took on the Saratoga Air Group [...

William Beaman thinks young people should be taught the history of World War 2, and believes it is important that there...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says she wants to ask Marthe Cohn some specific questions about the American Spirit...

[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] After his time on Iwo Jima [Annotator's...

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