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Gerry Jones discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's visit the South Pacific to assess the well being of the 1st Marine Division....

James Franklin Young was sent to Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in Beaufort...

It gives Quintana a good feeling to be able to say that he was a Marine Raider. He felt that the Raiders did not feel...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

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

After Michael Mervosh helped his wounded friends in the foxhole he realized that he had lost his hearing [Annotator's...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe left Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to...

Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone joined the US Marine Corps in July 1940. After completing boot camp he joined the 1st...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

Mervin Jensen was born in 1926 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. There were ten kids in the family. His mom and dad raised them...

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