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Rivers Richardson King was born in October 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Great Depression effected his family...

During the day [Annotator's Note: during Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at Bougainville,...

Richard Higgins was not on Bloody Nose Ridge but he was close it. Another man Higgins had great respect for was Red...

Theodore Marolda received orders to board a transport bound for the Solomon Islands after it was discovered the...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

After the battle ended, Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment,...

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

Norman Hatch, along with a group of other servicemen, boarded a train for Washington DC on a Sunday morning. Most of...

Walter Bowsher worked on an effort called the Mount Fuji Project which was supposedly building a children's playground...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout the segment.] Rawley R. Hill [Annotator’s...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...

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