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Claude Shannahan joined the Raiders because he wasn't tall enough to be a paratrooper and because he liked the name. He...

Harry McKnight was not smart enough to be afraid until he heard shells firing for the first time. It took time for him...

Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...

William Hall settled down after the war with the Marines but grew angry with the Marine Corps and quit. He did not like...

William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was told...

Ralph C. Franklin did not pass his first physical for the Marine Corps because he was underweight. He ate bananas and...

The older guys in the division [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] went home after Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert J. Ferris to talk about the photo album that he has with him. He points...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. witnessed the end of the fighting on Wake Island. It was chaotic. He [Annotator’s Note: then US...

Quintana believes that it is important that people continue to study and research World War II however he does note...

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