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Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

Adolph Wilson was a platoon sergeant on Iwo Jima but acted as a lieutenant after the officers were wounded or killed....

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...

Fortunately, the boat Michael Mervosh was in did not get hit [Annotator's Note: by Japanese artillery fire during the...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Harold G. Cowart trained on an M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1...

Charles Martin did not want to be drafted into the Army. He tried to enlist in the Air Force cadet school. He passed...

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