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

Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...

Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...

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

Willie Roy Hebert did not talk with his family about the war. [Annotator's Note: Hebert's wife talks about her father...

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

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

Jack Skaggs worked on roads in Shanghai as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. The POWs could take food out to...

Bill Toledo was born in northern New Mexico. [Annotator's Note: The video glitches at a few points.] When he was a baby...

Gravois didn't get any sleep during the 2 nights he was on Tarawa. The Japanese tried to infiltrate their lines, but...

Frank H. O’Leary was born in June 1921 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts]. He had two older brothers....

There has not been three and a half years of William J. Twigger's life that have had such a profound effect on him as...

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