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Robert Frederick Reed's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Bombing Squadron 612 (VMB-612)] did training dropping...

Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotators Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Calvin Moore was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the Japanese surrendered. They were running bets...

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

Dave Severance thought they would be sent home once they took the mountain [Annotator's Note: Mount Suribachi on Iwo...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

The Japanese were underneath the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] while the Marines were on it. James Shelton...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

[Annotator's Note: This interview clip begins with a tape break then starts midsentence.] George Colburn did not go...

James Bowie was part of the invasion of Guam [Annotator’s Note: The Battle of Guam, Mariana Islands; 21 July to 10...

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