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Glenn Frazier met a large sergeant when he arrived in Camp Shelby. Some of the new recruits were destined for Hawaii....

When F Company [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division] got word...

Nobuo Hayashi came to America in 1963 for business and decided he wanted to stay in the country indefinitely. In 1966,...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

[Annotator's Note: The interview video skips a bit in the beginning.] Richard Thelen was born in March 1927 and grew up...

Bruce McCormick went to China. He was non-rated. He asked his Division officer if he could take a test to get Third...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Lazarick knew he was going to the Pacific. In March of 1944 the 96th Division was classified as an amphibious division....

Joseph Townsend developed his own newspaper route. [Annotator’s Note: Townsend talks about selling newspapers.]...

Jacklyn Lucas's uncle had been a Marine. He finished his eighth grade of school in June 1942. He overwhelmed his mother...

Lieutenant Hagerty was promoted as a liaison officer for the 1st Marine Division and coordinated all of the regiments...

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