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The USS Princeton (CV-37) could not get close to the island [Annotator's Note: Johnston Atoll, United States Minor...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

After liberation, Robert Lents was flown to Calcutta, India where he spent six weeks in a hospital. At the time he was...

[Annotator's Note: George Peto served in the US Marine Corps in a machine gun section in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

Sumner Whitten was admitted to the training program as a PFC. When it was discovered that he had a college education he...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Wim de Jonge was a member of a Dutch artillery battery liaising with an American artillery unit under Captain Thomas...

[Annotator's Note: There is the sound of a lawnmower in the background during this clip.] Harry Bender was born and...

Alfred Taddeo was with the squadron that became the Blue Angels [Annotator's Note: United States Navy Blue Angels...

Jack Skaggs was transferred from the Kiangwan POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp to Osaka, Japan in August...

The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...

Norman Kleiss could not see if the bombs from the next two planes hit. When he made his run, he lined up on the big red...

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