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On 31 December 1945, Monroe Scherer landed in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan; after leaving occupation duty in...

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

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson entered the Navy in May 1945 at the age of 17 and did basic training at Great Lakes Naval...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was born in June 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has three sisters, many nieces and...

James J. Hill took all the Marine courses with no problem [Annotator's Note: during Marine Corps boot camp in late 1941...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior was born in Scott...

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

Douglas Holmes Blair was born in December 1925 in Roseburg, Oregon with one brother and a half-brother. Both of his...

Henry Joffray was a member of the Merchant Marine during World War 2. There were 4,000 ships and 260,000 sailors in...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...

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