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[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

During and after the Battle of Saipan, Ira Schilling and his fellow Marines willingly accepted enemy troops who...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County,...

They had to go through roll call everyday at the camp. They were all assigned different Japanese numbers. In the...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard was sent to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] after it had been...

[Annotator’ Notes: This clip begins with an individual talking on a telephone. A telephone rings at 2:48:22.00 and a...

James L. Wheeler spoke to a high school class and there was a person of Japanese descent in it. He asked what Wheeler...

William Pierce returned to San Francisco in March 1946. He was discharged in April 1946. He was shipped back to New...

Walter Bowsher felt the commander of the prison camp at Wusong was the worst person he met. He was named Ishihara [...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe took part in close air support of Marine ground troops, primarily on the southern part of...

Quintana did not mention events from the war too often; he talked about the war later in life. After he had his glass...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

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