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Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Kenneth Wieland does not remember too much about his basic training but recalls there was a lot of marching and time on...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw his first action [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11)], when a...

Leo William Schmittgens thought he was treated well by the veteran Marines. He learned a lot from them and cherished...

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...

As soon Philip Mayer got off the boat [Annotator's Note: in Melbourne, Australia], he was ordered to help extinguish a...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

Francis "Frank" Borrell was born in Beacon, New York, 60 miles north of New York City and ten miles from West Point [...

When Delewski resumed firing he had to sit in a different position to fire his gun. The fire had warped the area where...

After Japan captured the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] stopped in Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

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