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[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

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

Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...

Henry Quinton Pike [Annotator's Note: An announcement interrupts interview from 0:00:19.000 to 0:00:36.000] was born in...

Clayton Hall got to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: New Caledonia, Oceania] and the ship lost a prop [Annotator's Note...

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

The Marine Corps did not have any photographic organization prior to 1940 [Annotator's Note: Norman Hatch had joined...

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...

George Colburn used the G.I. Bill to attend the Franklin Institute of Boston [Annotator's Note: Benjamin Franklin...

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