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In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

Frank Campisano was told he would be in the first wave for the invasion of Japan. He departed for his old camp on...

In 1953 Thomas Crosby enlisted in the Navy. He was competing as a diver for the University of Hawaii and attending...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

At the time war broke out, Charles A. Waller was working as an usher at a nearby movie theater and followed the course...

Richard Jaccarino cited the dedication of his platoon leader, mentioning that the man had been wounded earlier on Leyte...

[Annotator’s Note: Comments from others off camera can be heard throughout segment.] Edmund Aziz and his ship [...

James Buckley had no interest in politics. Floating around in the Pacific [Annotator's Note: as a Deck Officer aboard...

Sidney Philips remembers the whole platoon being sent away to Lejeune. Most of the men were put into the 1st Regiment....

During the spring of 1943 in Jacksonville [Annotator’s Note: Jacksonville, Florida], James W. Metcalf and the other...

One night, Floyd James Reissig called general quarters while sailors were sleeping on the deck. There was an...

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