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In boot camp, George Vincent Ross was initially treated as a low-life by the DI [Annotator's Note: drill instructor]....

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

After basic training, James Franklin Young was sent to New River, North Carolina and placed in the Fleet Marine Force....

Forrest Villarrubia was home from the Pacific by December 1945, but he had to continue in the service because he did...

James Billingsley worked with Filipino forces. He was in the middle of it, and was pulled out. There was a Filipino...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

Willis Mills went into Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the Philippines] for a few days and observed the destruction...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

For a couple of weeks, Richard Jaccarino unloaded ships and moved supplies inland. The enemy was expected to come back...

Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was with the Asiatic Fleet [Annotator's Note: United States Asiatic Fleet, 1902 to 1942]....

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