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Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...

The first name on the list leaving for the camp Tanagawa was Ray Church. McLean had arranged for this transfer as a way...

Lester Hecht's commanding officer's name was John L. Smith [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Colonel John Lucian Smith...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

They did everything they could do to get off of the beach. One of the warrant officers was hit and told Keith Renstrom...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining to Roy Stewart how the interview process works...

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

Arthur Jackson had been influenced by Marine pilots and wanted to fly. At the recruiting office he took the aviation...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell served as a...

John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...

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

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

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