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In June 1942, after mortar training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville,...

Frederick Ellis had a roommate at Tulane [Annotator's Note: Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana] named Eddie...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox [Annotator's Note: serving with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

William Cart fought in World War 2 because he "did not have a hell of a choice." He was 18, in good health, and they...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on Wake Island with the 12 airplanes of VMF-211 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighting...

Being Captured

Myers knows how Mahatma Gandhi survived; he could do it. He does not know why, but he understands how people can go and...

Leon J. Neiman was at a pool room when he heard the bomb had been dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Oral History