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Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

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

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

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

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

Dave Severance remembers some of the men, including Ira Hayes, John Bradley [Annotator's Note: John Henry Bradley, also...

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

While Robert Frederick Reed was stationed in El Centro [Annotator’s Note: El Centro, California before being deployed...

There were little pockets of resistance [Annotators Note: during the first days on Okinawa]. His company started...

James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

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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