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[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in Headquarters, 52nd...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Keith Renstrom joined the Marine Corps on 13 June 1940. He went through boot camp in San Diego. He was raised on a farm...

When the ship he returned home aboard was approaching San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], James...

Adolph Wilson and his outfit sailed back to Hawaii after Iwo Jima. They were being trained to assault Sasebo, Japan as...

Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers...

Clayton Hall's most memorable experience of the war is fighting and wondering what he would be doing if he ever got out...

Thomas Edward Pugh was sent to the Marine Recruit Depot for boot camp in San Diego, California. He was woken up early...

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

Aboard ship, the head [Annotator's Note: naval slang for toilet or bathroom] was full. Nobody showed any fear...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

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