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[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] "PB"...

James Born was born in 1922 in Denver, Colorado. His father was a railroad man so his family was living in Denver or...

The barracks Charles Womack and the other Marines stayed in when they were on Pavuvu the first time were still there...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

Clayton Hall went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San Diego,...

The veterans felt better having other veterans around. When replacements came in Robert Akins knew that they were well...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

While moving towards New Georgia [Annotator's Note: New Georgia, Solomon Islands], Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson's boat [...

Paul Sartori Jr. returned home in January 1946. His father was waiting for him. He needed him to go to work. He was a...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

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