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Hilar Moore was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands], which was the forward base for the...

Gerry Jones feels that the Japanese soldiers were very tough men. He was able to track Japanese soldiers easily by the...

William Pierce was in Parris Island boot camp for eight weeks. He did what he was told and experienced the rigors of...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...

Kenneth Dwight Wells was shipped to the Pacific in November 1944 aboard the USS O.H. Ernst (AP-133) [Annotator's Note:...

Benjamin Carson was on Guam when the war in the Pacific came to an end. All of the ship whistles and horns were blowing...

Leo William Schmittgens thought he was treated well by the veteran Marines. He learned a lot from them and cherished...

James Bowie was born in September 1925 in Mississippi. Bowie had two sisters and one brother. He was the youngest. His...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

Roy Stewart thinks about Iwo Jima every day [Annotator's Note: he was with the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

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

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