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Dave Severance was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in July 1919. His family moved to Colorado when he was very young. He...

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

Benjamin Carson was on Guam when the war in the Pacific came to an end. All of the ship whistles and horns were blowing...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine assigned to the Guam Insular Force Guard in Guam, Mariana Islands]...

Henry James Bird [Annotator's Note: assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

Leo William Schmittgens thought he was treated well by the veteran Marines. He learned a lot from them and cherished...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard's unit [Annotator's Note: 28th Infantry Regiment, 5th Marine Division] was sent to Sasebo on...

Samuel Ukrop was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with John Cleveland [Annotator's Note...

Salvatore Famularo was born in Amsterdam, New York in September 1925. He had a sister and a brother. He was the oldest...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

James Franklin Young was born in Toledo, Ohio in June 1921. He grew up with one older brother. His mother and father...

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