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Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining to Roy Stewart how the interview process works...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

After being discharged in August 1946, Harry McKnight went home and enrolled in the University of Ohio [Annotator's...

William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

Ira Schilling and his outfit of assault engineers landed in the third wave during the invasion of Saipan. They landed...

John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

In Hawaii, they [Annotator's Note: James Goodrich and the rest of the 5th Marine Division] trained for the landing on...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell served as a...

Edmund Durocher was alone for a while [Annotator's Note: on a ridge on Cape Gloucester, New Britain known as Coffin...

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