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Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Albert Simon was in the Philippines. They stayed in pup tents [Annotator's Note: small sleep tents often shared by two...

Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

Sometime in the spring of 2004 [Annotator's Note: Myers means 1944] there was a Japanese, who Myers thought had been...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

There was a prisoner of war camp near where James Patterson was stationed [Annotator’s Note: in New Guinea]. They put...

Francis John "Dick" Varone enlisted in the Marine Corps by himself. He waited until he received orders to report to...

In January 1944, Philip Nelson was training on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in San Diego [Annotator’s...

Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran was assigned to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian...

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