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After the battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945, Iwo Jima, Japan],...

Following Navy tradition, Harlan Twible was the last person to be pulled out of the water. He was picked up by the...

After Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Norman Sterrie...

Lloyd Dendy was in the hospital with malaria and did not return to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. He had...

While overseas, Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe took part in close air support of Marine ground troops, primarily on the southern part of...

Gerald Wayne Lux met his wife Alice at a dance during college. [Annotator’s Note: Alice Lux participates in this...

Leo William Schmittgens was born in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] in February 1926. He had four...

Ralph C. Franklin did not pass his first physical for the Marine Corps because he was underweight. He ate bananas and...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

Tinian was only about nine days [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tinian, 24 July to 1 August 1944, Tinian, Mariana Islands...

Deen was supposed to follow Bill Thompson [Annotators Note: during the invasion of Peleliu, 15 September 1944]. He was...

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