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Thomas Francis Schicker's boot camp training was excellent. After four weeks, they went to Camp Matthews [Annotator's...

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

Robert Powers was called back to the service for Korea [Annotator's Note: the Korean War]. He had been honorably...

Oscar Culp was born in May 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young African-American, he saw some of the biases...

Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

America is the only country and society in the world, in Arthur Jackson's opinion, equipped to take on the dictators of...

Frank Kern, [Annotator's Note: with A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] was on the...

When Lester Hecht was in Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines], the aircraft he was in charge of always...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

When James Shelton Scales was promoted to captain and given his own company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion...

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