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In August 1945, after completing an advanced infantry training course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Marvin Martin was sent...

When Mervin Jensen received his draft notice, he thought everyone else had to go so he would to. He went to Fort...

Ellis Whaley's most memorable experience from World War 2 would have to be Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa...

Lazarick heard President Roosevelt's speech [Annotator's Note: Roosevelt's speech to Congress which he gave on 8...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. "Bob" Brasel asks the interviewer if he can read from a paper he is holding.] Brasel...

Byron Herbert Meader's most memorable experience of World War 2 was meeting up with the Russians and observing how they...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

Adolfo V. Celaya went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. The training was difficult...

Leo William Schmittgens thought he was treated well by the veteran Marines. He learned a lot from them and cherished...

Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

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