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Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...

James Pringle was born in Sumter, South Carolina in November 1925. Life growing up was rough. He worked in grocery...

The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...

Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands] was a morale...

Gene Alair received some schooling at government expense back when he was married. He had been sent back to Harvard...

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

Paul Sparacino was ordered aboard the USS Princeton [Annotator's Note: USS Princeton (LPH-5)] as an airdale [Annotator'...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran was assigned to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian...

The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...

In 1940, David Heath graduated high school and went to work on a farm. Later that year, he joined the Marines [...

After he had joined the Navy, it was a shock for Ben Ray Bost to leave home and get into uniform. Everything was free...

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