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[Annotator’s Note: Speaking is audible in the background through this segment.] In February 1945, Leander Bubrig [...

Frank George Memory was a crewman on a submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Gato (SS-212)]. The boat was about 300 feet...

When Orville Carroll arrived at Northwest Field on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], the Marines had...

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

After he landed in Noumea, New Caledonia, Olaf Rose, his brother, and some other guys who had traveled together on the...

Robert E. McGovern was never in any combat while he was in the Philippines because he arrived soon after World War 2...

John Mikus, Jr.'s rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand] did not...

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

After eliminating the remainder of the artillery positions on Ngesebus Island, the 5th Marine Regiment returned to...

Samuel Hadjinian was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He graduated from high school in 1942 and worked for a year as a stock...

James Warren David remarked how he missed eating fresh eggs, roast beef, gravy, seafood, and cous-cous, and other Cajun...

While Ralph Morse was in the hospital recovering from malaria, he was told he would not be going back to the Pacific [...

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