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Willie Roy Hebert joined the Marine Corps due to their reputation. He came out of boot camp as a PFC [Annotator's Note...

Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...

To Richard Greer the staff NCOs in the weapons company were the heroes. They had a lot of old staff NCOs that they...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] stopped in Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Okinawa, Japan in July 1945.] There was a sign posted saying that they...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] and the American officers at Cabanatuan [Annotator's Note:...

Rob Roy Ratliff was assigned to the communications section of Headquarters, 5th Marine Division. At the time, the 5th...

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