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[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...

Samuel Malta was based in Brooklyn New York as a military escort for the war dead. It was rough duty. He had to sign...

Henry Bourgeois was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He first flew when he was about seven years old. After...

Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

Toward the end of the World War 2, Alfred Raymond Mosher was put on a train and sent to another camp [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Phineas Stevens to explain what an LST or Landing Ship, Tank is.] "Large, Slow...

Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...

Harold Zeringer was a participant in the assault to take the Japanese held island of Okinawa. The invasion took place...

On the morning of 3 February 1945, a mortar shell dropped in the rice paddy alongside Theodore Pavlovich and he took...

Robert Prince graduated from college and then reported to Fort Lewis [Annotator's Note: now part of Joint Base Lewis-...

After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

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