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[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Calvin Moore which Pacific islands stand out to him the most.] Okinawa [...

Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

As the American advance through the Pacific moved closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, enemy resistance grew...

In Hawaii, they [Annotator's Note: James Goodrich and the rest of the 5th Marine Division] trained for the landing on...

While Robert Frederick Reed was stationed in El Centro [Annotator’s Note: El Centro, California before being deployed...

James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart served in the US Marine Corps as a pilot in Marine Fighting Squadron 155 (VMF-155)...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945 at Iwo Jima, Japan], Robert Erskine...

William Wayne left the United States for the first time and it was not scary, but it was different. They made their way...

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