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Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Otis Arthur Slack [Annotator's Note: with the 37th Infantry Regiment (Separate)] was on Kodiak Island [Annotator's Note...

Keith Renstrom felt like he had too much responsibility to stay with his men [Annotator's Note: even after being...

Rogers was born in Saltville, Virginia on 1 January 1915.He graduated from high school in 1932 during the middle of the...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island on 23 December 1941 when the Japanese launched their amphibious invasion of the island....

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

If Jacklyn Lucas's father had been alive, he would not have allowed him to go off to the service because he could...

Harold Jones and his unit [Annotator's Note: 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] went to Lipa [...

Clifford Campbell did not go ashore on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippine Islands] until the island was secure...

While Carl Rieman was off of Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], the USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)...

Socrates Dendrinelis remembers the kamikazes [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide bombers] hitting the ships. It made a...

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