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Hilar Moore was shipped to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] after the invasion started. He took...

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

Jack Skaggs was transferred from the Kiangwan POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp to Osaka, Japan in August...

Norman Hatch received his orders to the 5th Marine Division while he was still in the United States as his...

Thomas Francis Schicker was told he was ready to go overseas. At Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps...

James Bowie was on a liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] when he went to Guam [...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer and Kenneth Dwight Wells are in conversation during the first part of the tape.]...

James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...

While overseas, Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the constant mortar [Annotator's Note: M1 81mm mortar] firing during World War 2...

Mack was born in his grandparents home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...

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