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Basic training was rough for Raymond Loidolt. He was 18. It was lot of climbing with full packs on. Once you go through...

Returning to Maui [Annotator's Note: returning to Maui, Hawaii from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] was the first...

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

Hershel Williams does not remember knocking out some of the pillboxes. One of them, however, Williams remembers, ran...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They...

In this segment, Joe Clapper reviewed photographs that visually record the history of his platoon [Annotator's Note:...

After the Battle of Peleliu, Romus Burgin was one of four men from the 5th Marine Regiment to be considered for a field...

Bryon Carl Oliver was born in July 1922 in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he played sports including skiing, baseball...

Charles Brooks landed on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] just in time for the attack on the...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

Charles Martin was born in August 1922 in Nebraska. He had one brother that died when he was an infant. His father was...

Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...

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