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John Wesley Tatum was never on the front lines [Annotator's Note: while serving in a mortar section in Company H, 2nd...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

Sumner Whitten was born in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school he went to Amherst College. In college he was in...

Roger A. Lewis was born in March 1920 in Chunchula [Annotator's Note: Chunchula, Alabama]. He was the oldest of eight...

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

Edgar Cole went to communications school and finished at the head of his class. He was automatically assigned to...

Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is background noise throughout this clip.] After his mission on...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

Rob Roy Ratliff was assigned to the communications section of Headquarters, 5th Marine Division. At the time, the 5th...

Ed Weber is proud to have been in the Marine Corps. He loves his country and the Marine Corps. It upsets him greatly to...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

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