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Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Robert Powers was called back to the service for Korea [Annotator's Note: the Korean War]. He had been honorably...

Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Richard O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. "Dick" O'Kane] gave William Leibold a nice 35mm...

Lyle Mitchell remembers there were some ships that would never be repaired [Annotator’s Note: he is referring to the...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

Frank N. Savage was born in June 1921 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. His parents had a difficult time during the depression...

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

Kent Butzer Kellegrew does not remember when he was discharged but remembers that he was on Guam [Annotator's Note:...

Samuel Goss had no idea that he would become a boat officer. Before he graduated as an ensign [Annotator's Note: lowest...

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