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William Wayne ran into a corpsman who was sitting with a guy who was wounded in the stomach. Wayne told them they could...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...

On the way to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman crossed paths with a Navy ship that...

A great number of the troops that were mustered were from the South. Warren J. Haslauer believes the Southern people,...

Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Edmund Durocher spent three months on Pavuvu. The Marine brass cut the division [Annotator's Note: the 1st Marine...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Norman Hatch in conversation with the interviewer.] Hatch used to show...

Edward Bale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1920. He was the only child. His father was in the automobile tire business....

Norman Hatch graduated from high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1938. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

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