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William Wayne had joined the Marine Corps with John Shepperly who got shot through the arm landing on Iwo Jima, Japan....

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer was born in Savannah, Georgia in March 1918...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman's...

Frank Borrell thinks about the men he served with. They became like members of his family. Everyone tried to be friends...

William Barnes manned a 20 millimeter antiaircraft gun aboard USS PC-590. When an enemy plane came at the ship it...

William O’Brien and fellow sailors played cards or slept when they were not working. He had to take classes to get a...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

Salvatore Famularo does not know why he picked the Marine Corps. He thought he was an athletic kid. He had street sense...

[Annotator's Note: Rattling dishes can be heard in the background.] Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby [...

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