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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

Ralph C. Franklin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 13 July 1920. Life was wonderful during his youth. Raised in a middle...

Henry Quinton Pike was part of the 3rd Raider Battalion [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Raider Battalion] which invaded...

On 1 December 1943, they [Annotator's Note: Dave Severance and the rest of the 3rd Marine Parachute Battalion] attacked...

The Marine Corps did not have any photographic organization prior to 1940 [Annotator's Note: Norman Hatch had joined...

Mack is the chaplain of the Sixth Marine Division Association. He notes that the ranks are getting very thin. The...

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman was born [Annotator’s Note: in September 1924] in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose,...

[Annotator's Note: There is loud background noise throughout this clip.] Willie Roy Hebert, hates his first name of...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Bourgeois served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft with Marine...

Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

Richard O'Hara was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1925 and lived there until he was about 15. He considers...

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