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Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...

Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

James Stewart Rosenbaum's most memorable experience was when his friend went on a mission and was killed by a sniper....

Richard Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1940. He was set on the Marine Corps from the beginning. He never considered...

As Peter Paret's battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division] moved down...

[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] Hall and his squadron [...

Rollins Rosenzweig departed California aboard the carrier [Annotator's Note: Rosenzweig was a radioman and gunner on a...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

Lester Hecht and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Marine Aircraft Group 32 (MAG-32)] trained pilots in Honolulu [Annotator...

After Harold Rosen was wounded, he went back into action. The shrapnel was embedded and it allowed him to serve, but...

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