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Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

[Annotator's Note: There is the sound of a lawnmower in the background during this clip.] Harry Bender was born and...

Angus Francis Mestayer is 95 years old. He was born in 1922 in Loreauville [Annotator's Note: Loreauville, Louisiana]....

Leisey's father was a railroad worker and his mother was a garment worker. They survived the Great Depression by...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the battle of Okinawa, Japan], Harry McKnight was sent back to Guam [Annotator's Note...

Not far from Naha [Annotator's Note: Naha, Okinawa, Japan], Melvin C. Whitman got into a 20 plus hour artillery duel....

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

Henry Quinton Pike was part of the 3rd Raider Battalion [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Raider Battalion]. He had two...

[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...

Ralph C. Franklin became an adjutant in Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Marine Division]....

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...

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