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Nevin Sledge wanted to be a Marine pilot, but he had to go through Navy aviation school. He went to the Navy and was...

William J. Twigger's training [Annotator's Note: on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944] was mainly...

The first and only time Raymond Bailey ever came under attack was on 19 March 1945. They were 50 miles off the coast of...

Charles Wesley Borders served for about two months in the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1943. He and five others were sent...

Douglas Holmes Blair was born in December 1925 in Roseburg, Oregon with one brother and a half-brother. Both of his...

Kenneth Killilea left Maui and traveled by LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship Tank] to Saipan. The Japanese did not...

Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...

The Marines had to land about a thousand yards short of the beach at Tarawa. Eugene Tarrant recalls the San Francisco's...

There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

John Snyder's most memorable invasion of World War 2 was the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]....

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with James Billingsley midsentence in a new story.] Billingsley says that after the...

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

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