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[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll. The battery had an old 5 inch 51 gun [...

Mac Glenn Morris flew missions [Annotator's Note: as a dive bomber pilot in Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 236 (VMSB-236...

Robert Leroy Shirkey would lead about five men when he was on a mission with the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th...

Albert Simon fought for his country. He was drafted. He fought for the United States flag. He changed from a civilian...

While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

Archibald Rackerby stayed in the Marine Corps after the war ended. He was not 100 percent after his injury. [Annotator'...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Charles "Chuck" Wisher was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1926. His father was in construction so at five years of...

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

After John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war] recovered and was released from the hospital, he...

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