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Donald Draxler was brought back to Hawaii [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Saipan] and...

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

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

William Lutz was born in March 1920 and raised in Reading [Annotator’s Note: Reading, Pennsylvania]. He had a good life...

Joseph Townsend joined the service because his aunt who was a Marine convinced him to join. He is military-oriented and...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was...

After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

On Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: with the 5th Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran was assigned to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian...

Archie Kelley realized he was a raw ensign [Annotator's Note: lowest rank of commissioned officer in the US Navy and...

Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...

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