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Frank Pomroy begins the interview by talking about the living conditions on Guadalcanal. Living conditions were as...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

James McEnery liked having the Dobermans around. McEnery remembers a shipment of dogs being delivered to them at the...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was with the 1st Defense Battalion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.] They were on a guard duty...

When the flag went up on Mt. Suribachi [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, February 1945], Hershel Williams was too busy in...

After Norman Hatch landed with Major Jim Crowe [Annotator's Note: Major Henry Pierson Crowe commanded 2nd Battalion,...

John Mikus, Jr. almost got shot when he got back to the United States. He wanted to call home. The women Marines had...

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

Coming home from Japan was a joyous time for Don Daniels. His brother was already out of the service. They tried to get...

Thomas Francis Schicker was sent to Mainside Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe joined VMF-323 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighter Squadron 323 (VMF-323), called the "Death...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Oral History