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Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Robert Addison joined the United States Marine Corps on 7 January 1942. He spent three weeks at Parris Island and then...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

Dale LeBlanc went to boot camp in San Diego. Marines who went to boot camp in San Diego were referred to as Hollywood...

Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...

Arthur Pendleton does not recall to much more about Cape Gloucester. There was nothing pleasant about it and he was...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

Mack graduated from high school June 1st, 1943. He entered the United States Navy on July 13th, 1943 and was discharged...

The first thing that happened to Harry McKnight when he reached boot camp was a haircut. He was then given a rifle and...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

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