Search results

Map is loading...

James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....

Edmund Durocher landed on Guadalcanal weighing 156 pounds and left weighing 126. He had no socks because they had...

In some ways, Ira Schilling felt he grew up very quickly due to his experience serving in the US Marine Corps during...

James L. Wheeler spoke to a high school class and there was a person of Japanese descent in it. He asked what Wheeler...

After some time in Melbourne, Edmund Durocher and the other Marines [Annotator's Note: of the 1st Marine Division] were...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

Richard Higgins was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in Sims Hospital. Higgins moved to Harrison, Maine when he was...

Mack graduated from high school June 1st, 1943. He entered the United States Navy on July 13th, 1943 and was discharged...

After 29 days aboard ship, O’Neil Ducharme landed at Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. Upon...

After Korea, Walter Bowsher served as the San Diego brig warden. In 1953, he was in charge of the escort section of men...

One of the replacements sent to James Goodrich's squad was killed before Goodrich ever got his name because he did not...

Oral History