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James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on Wake Island with the 12 airplanes of VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

Marvin Hill had a famous bandleader aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748)]. Eddie Duchin...

Mack was born in his grandparents home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...

After the Battle of the Tenaru River, Frank H. O’Leary and his squad were only given one and half meals a day because...

Monroe Scherer was shipped out to California where he visited some relatives and friends. He then went by troop ship to...

Next, the USS Hutchins (DD-746) took part in the landings on the Philippine island of Leyte, and Mark Brannon mentioned...

When Hersey Goodwin was discharged, it was after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout this segment.] Rawley R. Hill [Annotator’s...

After being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila, Philippines], people were...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

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