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Forrest Villarrubia was born in 1925 in Lacombe, Louisiana. Lacombe is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just...

Giles Bacon remembers that the Japanese aircraft were close enough to shoot at, which he did. He had no idea if he hit...

Giles Bacon was with the Marine Raiders [Annotators Note: 2nd Marine Raider Battalion] for six months. He had enough of...

George Colburn called for a stretcher. One of the ones who brought the stretcher got hit. They put his friend,...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

James Wilson got off Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, February 1944]...

[Annotator's Note: A person off screen interjects throughout the interview.] Harold G. Cowart and the 25th Marines [...

When Allen Tillery got there [Annotator's Note: to Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Eniwetok in Febraury 1944] he was...

Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

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