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Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

Ellis Whaley does not remember where he had basic training. He was sent to California for special training. It was a...

After the war, Richard H. Kerr enlisted into the regular Navy and remained in service for 30 years. His first...

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Sunday, 7 December 1941], J. W. Childs saw one Japanese...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

Robert Frederick Reed's time in the service made him wonder why we were at war all the time, with World War 2, the...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] shows the footage of "Marines at Tarawa" [...

Frank Kern, [Annotator's Note: with A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division], arrived in...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Charles Kneflin what his personal reaction was to the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Thomas Francis Schicker was sent to Mainside Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

The men were lined up waiting to be searched. A friend, Joe Perry, who later made full Commander devised a plan to get...

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