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Ray Camp was born in December 1924 in Friendship, Tennessee. He lived there on a farm until he got drafted. He received...

James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and his entourage met some of the Wake Island conquerors. [Annotator's Note: Borne and six...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Carey Suratt believes the war in Vietnam was costly in lives, unnecessarily. He thinks it is important to teach about...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Ed Weber is proud to have been in the Marine Corps. He loves his country and the Marine Corps. It upsets him greatly to...

William Winter agrees with the interviewer's statement that many black veterans felt more freedom in the Army than they...

William Burkett recalls that the Army was segregated. Court martials were given based on rules dating from 1912. Then...

Joseph Fisher remembers that they would have air raids with one or two planes at a time. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a...

After the battle ended, Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment,...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

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