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Myers Bernard Rosenbloom left Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] and went 7,000 miles across the ocean back...

Rob Roy Ratliff joined the Marine Corps and trained with some of the Navajo code talkers. He received a ten day leave [...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Carrol Smith served in the Marine Corps in 1943 and 1944. He was deployed overseas in short order. The bombs were...

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

When Charles Womack and the other Marines in his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Willie Roy Hebert had no trouble adjusting to civilian life. He was in the ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...

Charles Gubish was in the 3rd Marine Division [Annotator's Note: 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] when he...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

James Goodrich wanted to join the Marine Corps as soon as he saw his first Marine Corps poster. He also enjoyed the...

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