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After the initial Japanese air attack, Jack Skaggs and a corporal were assigned to BC scope [Annotator's Note: military...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Calvin Moore which Pacific islands stand out to him the most.] Okinawa [...

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

On 23 February 1945, the battalion commander sent four men from Company F [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion,...

World War 2 changed Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior's life by making him aware of America's significance in this...

James Shelton Scales did not think about his family much, except that he missed his wife and daughter. His wife wrote...

Charles Womack and every other Marine on the island were fully aware that they were headed for Japan after the fighting...

James Bowie used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted...

David Heath transferred to Guadalcanal, 26 miles from the island of Tulagi [Annotator's Note: both in the Solomon...

On Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: with the 5th Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945...

There were a lot of good guys in Frank Stewart's unit with the exception of some of the officers. On Guadalcanal,...

Arthur Pendleton went to Pavuvu after Cape Gloucester. There, he dealt with a bout of appendicitis which almost killed...

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