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Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...

Basic training was rough for Raymond Loidolt. He was 18. It was lot of climbing with full packs on. Once you go through...

Frank Stewart shows the interviewer a photograph that was taken at the naval hospital in San Diego. Bob Day had also...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Edward Bale witnessed attacks by Japanese troops who were inebriated. He learned to like the Japanese after the war...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Higgins served in the US Marine Corps in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

[Annotator's Note: There is the sound of a lawnmower in the background during this clip.] Harry Bender was born and...

Oral History