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Thomas Kolesa and his wife were able to get a place to live in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] that...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore if his meeting a variety of types of people in the service...

Charles Graves Chauncey was born in April 1923 in Chanute, Kansas. He went through the school system, went to Kansas...

Olaf Rose became acquainted with, and courted, his future wife by mail from the Pacific. When he came home on a 30 day...

Robert Taylor arrived in Samoa in April 1942. The Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] campaign...

Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...

Harold DeForest was on Leyte on his way back to the 37th Infantry Division when the atomic bomb was dropped and the war...

Ernest Cowell took a train from Fort Mason, California [Annotator's Note: in San Francisco, California], to Fort Lewis...

Mack is the chaplain of the Sixth Marine Division Association. He notes that the ranks are getting very thin. The...

Mort Oman was sent to New Guinea and joined the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller and trained for...

Thomas Paris was born in Nashville, Tennessee in May 1926. He had one sister. His father was a salesman for Remington....

On 1 July 1943, Louis Burg [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942] was ordered to active duty and...

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