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[Annotator’s Note: This interview is outside so there is a lot of background noise throughout the clip.] Everett Pope...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

Okinawa is something of a blur in Romus Burgin's mind. Unlike New Britain and Peleliu, battles from which he can...

James J. Hill flew with VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211)] as the war ended. He learned...

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

Ira Schilling and his outfit of assault engineers landed in the third wave during the invasion of Saipan. They landed...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division of...

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

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

Salvatore Famularo does not know why he picked the Marine Corps. He thought he was an athletic kid. He had street sense...

The last thing Richard Greer and his fellow Marines did before leaving Guadalcanal was to dedicate a cemetery in honor...

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