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In 1944, Louis R. Lepore loaded his division [Annotator's Note: 5th Marine Division] into a ship and set sail. He...

Anthony Costa was born in Concord, California in January 1920. At the time, Concord was a small farm town. His father...

Frank Campisano's trip to the Pacific was uneventful. He joined the 2nd Marine Division on Saipan [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Don Daniels to describe moving across the island during the Battle of Iwo Jima...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...

James Shelton Scales did not have to make the initial landing [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima, Japan]. He and his...

Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...

At night around Henderson field the fighting was rough [Annotators Note: on Guadalcanal]. Quintana could only aim at...

Lloyd Dendy was in the hospital with malaria and did not return to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. He had...

After returning home, Clayton Hall went to work with an oil company for a week. He then went to work in a harvest field...

James Shelton Scales was in the Marine Corps when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

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