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Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

George Peto served in the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He spent 32 months overseas and...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

Forrest Villarrubia was born in 1925 in Lacombe, Louisiana. Lacombe is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Calvin Moore which Pacific islands stand out to him the most.] Okinawa [...

Thomas Edward Pugh did not know the Bloemfontein brought American volunteers to China. He did not have duty on this...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

World War 2 changed Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior's life by making him aware of America's significance in this...

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