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Martin Banyas sailed all the islands [Annotator's Note: a Marine gunner on USS Santa Fe (CL-60)] including Saipan [...

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

Henry Quinton Pike [Annotator's Note: An announcement interrupts interview from 0:00:19.000 to 0:00:36.000] was born in...

Charles Womack and every other Marine on the island were fully aware that they were headed for Japan after the fighting...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...

Keith Renstrom notes that one of the hardest things for a Marine, or anybody, is to see your first American blood [...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

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