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James Newsom joined the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was put on a train in New Orleans,...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe joined VMF-323 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighter Squadron 323 (VMF-323), called the "Death...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

Vernon Henry Moret finished his senior year of high school in Maryland and not long after, was drafted into the Army....

When Calvin Moore arrived at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North...

Joe Clapper was born in Jonesboro, Indiana, but grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He joined the Marine Corps just out of...

It gives Quintana a good feeling to be able to say that he was a Marine Raider. He felt that the Raiders did not feel...

[Annotators Note: Charles Bishop served in the navy aboard the destroyer USS Cummings (DD-365) then later aboard the...

Richard Lamey Nesossis and his flight crew [Annotator's Note: 5th Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force] fly from Hawaii to...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Harlan Twible to describe the USS Indianapolis (CA-...

Lloyd Dendy met the toughest guy ever in Korea. He had been hit in the cheek by shrapnel and lost a lot of his teeth....

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