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When they [Annotators Note: James Smith and the rest of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] went back to New Zealand, they...

The drill instructor Steve McMurray had for basic training was a small, compact, mean man from Mississippi who was "as...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] only had black sand in the southern part of the island. Iwo Jima means...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

Daniel J. Lawler deployed to the Pacific in November 1943. He felt sufficiently trained. Training was hell, but he used...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carrel Reavis why he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, as a...

Frank Stewart stopped to see one of his brothers in Oklahoma on his way to Boston when he returned to the United States...

Charles Brooks saw purple flak on his first combat mission off the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6...

After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior [Annotator’s Note: a pilot with Marine Night Fighting Squadron 542 (VMF(N)-542)] was...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

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