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Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...

Harold Joslin joined the Navy around 1939. He liked the idea of going to sea. He also really wanted to get off the farm...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...

Myers was discharged from the Navy as a Seamen Last-Class [Annotator's Note: either apprentice seaman or seaman 2nd...

James Salerno believes that World War 2 made him a better person. It made him feel lucky to be alive. He feels like it...

Wim de Jonge reached a prison in Singapore where he was guarded by Indian troops who had formerly served in the British...

[Annotator’s Note: Sound and video are not in sync throughout segment.] After serving in the Navy for 20 years, Wallace...

According to Peter Paret, the great Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz tried to understand war with a...

Louis John Walter left San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] aboard the William G. Fargo [...

Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

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