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

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

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

Vaughn Whitworth, like most segregated Marines, was in a Depot Company [Annotator's Note: 19th Depot Company, 7th Field...

After being discharged from the Marine Corps, Bryon Oliver returned home. He returned to his old job, then moved to...

In February or March 1943, Myers Bernard Rosenbloom went to Camp Pendleton[Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

[Annotator's Note: John Stiles went to Marine Corps boot camp training in San Diego, California.] They were given...

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

Deen was born in McCray, Georgia. His father was the president of South Methodist College. He was one of three kids....

Edgar Harrell was assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [Annotator's Note: sometimes referred to as "Indy"] serving...

When Charles Stix went into Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] on a Higgins boat [Annotator's Note: Landing...

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