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Roger A. Lewis left Wallis Island [Annotator's Note: Wallis and Futuna] and returned first to American Samoa, and then...

Carrel Reavis took a train to Wilmington, North Carolina and then a bus to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville...

Steve McMurray related that by the time an attacking unit reached its objective on the heights of Iwo Jima, its force...

James J. Hill flew with VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211)] as the war ended. He learned...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is background noise throughout this clip.] Not one day goes by...

John Stiles went to El Toro, California [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro] for aviation training. The...

Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

Jimmie Dyer went overseas on a ship that was designed as a tanker. It was a sorry piece of machinery. It was a tough...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vaughn Whitworth if he experienced racism from other Marines while serving in...

Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

Richard Nummer experienced the brutality of war on Iwo Jima. He and his buddies witnessed Japanese soldiers lying with...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] The...

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