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Richard Bennett remembers that it was in the Palau Islands that his vessel had their most memorable encounters with the...

K.D. Jones was Karr's pointer on the gun mount. Jones and Karr were able to get down and crawl out onto the deck. They...

Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Sturman why getting his first command of men in the Aleutian Islands,...

Paul Amrod observed that the Koreans were never fighters. He thought General John Hodge did his best to warn the...

Jack Dye [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS LSM-232] landed at various islands both during the battles...

Joseph LaNier tells others to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself. He rose to be vice-president of...

Adolph William Amundson's mission on Iwo Jima, Japan was to pick up the wounded and fly them back to a hospital on Guam...

Irwin Schneider was ill prepared to be a naval officer when he went on active duty. He was sent to Fort Schuyler, New...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

Charles Stix was born in March 1925. His great-grandfather came to Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] from...

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