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Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] David Lansou believes that the way...

Prior to becoming the postmaster, Walter Bowsher had manned three inch antiaircraft guns. He was familiar with those...

David Thomason was born in October 1925. He had four brothers and grew up on a farm outside of Fountain Inn [Annotator'...

After the Battle of Peleliu, Romus Burgin was one of four men from the 5th Marine Regiment to be considered for a field...

Hodding Carter, II was a friend of William Winter's. He was not a popular figure in the state [Annotator's Note: in...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

Peter Hebert was born in 1927 in Algiers, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school. His father worked and his mother...

John St. Germain was wounded while advancing up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima; 19...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

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