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Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

Calvin Moore used his G.I. Bill to buy a house and go to school. The G.I. Bill was important to post World War 2...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division of...

[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

On 13 January 1944, Steve McMurray left on a troop transport ship and was amazed at the clear blue water of the Pacific...

Samuel Ukrop was flown to an Army hospital on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands]. He was the only Marine in...

Charles Brooks entered the United States Navy. He was first shipped to Athens, Georgia for basic physical training...

James Shelton Scales majored in insurance when he was in college. He signed up as an insurance agent after the war. He...

Salvatore Famularo does not know why he picked the Marine Corps. He thought he was an athletic kid. He had street sense...

For Allen Tillery, returning to civilian life was not much of an adjustment because it happened so fast. He thought for...

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