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Howard Hart found out that there was a secret radio in the camp. An engineer had put it together using scavenged parts...

Earl Wergin's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was killed. He fought because he felt there...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]...

At the end of January [Annotator's Note: January 1945] in Leyte Gulf, Frederick Grun had his first experience with...

Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

John Stiles went to El Toro, California [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro] for aviation training. The...

Wesley Carroll and his wife raised three children. Their first son, James Stephen, was born in 1948 and was adopted by...

Following departure from New Georgia, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] reached...

Arthur Pendleton made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun. At the end of his fourth year which he had signed up for...

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