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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....

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. realized that there were no officers to protect the Wake Island Marines who were prisoners of...

Melvin Munch stopped at Guam en route to Okinawa. He was concerned about the requirements of going into a war zone. He...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

[Annotator’s Note: Construction vehicles can be heard in the background throughout the segment, as well as someone in...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

John E. Johnson fought in World War 2 because he had to. He was drafted. Johnson acknowledges the war changed his life...

John Geiger remembers when he was in New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance...

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