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Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

Leon J. Neiman met the native populations of Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] numerous times...

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

Sumner Whitten arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, west of Honolulu. The mess from the attack on Pearl Harbor was...

When James Shelton Scales was promoted to captain and given his own company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion...

Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...

Thomas Francis Schicker went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] and did maneuvers offshore...

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

Keith Renstrom discusses what it was like to train soldiers. One time, he witnessed a soldier giving bayonet...

Clayton Hall was pinned down [Annotator's Note: with Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Edgar Cole if he felt serving in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of...

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