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The Japanese were underneath the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] while the Marines were on it. James Shelton...

Archibald Rackerby stayed in the Marine Corps after the war ended. He was not 100 percent after his injury. [Annotator'...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

Robert Kinzler was born in Newark, New Jersey, but his hometown was just outside the city in Irvington. He graduated...

Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...

Pearson Riddle was sent to second camp that had high walls and an electric fence in 1943. He was then put on a ship to...

Mahlen Arledge participated in a ceremony when he crossed the equator. [Annotator's Note: The ceremony of conversion...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] returned to his unit...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was looking forward to seeing the enemy. The Marines were under the Navy. After training, they...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

The kamikazes were day and night [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, 1 April...

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