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[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

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

Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Benjamin Carson and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion left San Diego and headed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS J....

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

Dave Severance was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in July 1919. His family moved to Colorado when he was very young. He...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was told...

Charles Womack saw many civilians on Okinawa. The civilians would bow as the Marines passed by them. Womack's unit [...

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