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[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

Revisiting the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps, Floyd Fogg said he signed up before he finished high school...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] Normally, the...

Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was assigned...

Wiley relates that at the time of the hit and run carrier raids, they had more aircrew than airplanes. Being a new...

Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

Henry Joffray sailed his first Merchant Marine voyage delivering shredded wheat for the troops. [Annotator's Note:...

When asked about a general message about his service and war, Eugene Tarrant references Civil War General Sherman's [...

In August 1942, Bill Norberg knew that the Marines had landed on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

To avoid being drafted into the Army, James D. Comeaux volunteered for Naval service in June 1944, boarded a train, and...

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