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When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...

Ernest Jackson received his draft notice. He did not know if he was going to qualify. He was amazed he passed that day...

Mervin Jensen was born in 1926 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. There were ten kids in the family. His mom and dad raised them...

Shows were important to George Colburn. Eddie Bracken [Annotator's Note: Edward Vincent Bracken, American entertainer]...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

Keith Renstrom and Amagony [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling; on Iwo Jima] looked at each other and gave each other...

The hardest part of the Marines Corps for Ernest Jackson was basic training and learning to obey orders. But it was a...

When Mervin Jensen received his draft notice, he thought everyone else had to go so he would to. He went to Fort...

George Colburn went to China with the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: in September 1945]....

Keith Renstrom discusses what it was like to train soldiers. One time, he witnessed a soldier giving bayonet...

Ernest Jackson could go off base on furlough. Some bases, like some of the little towns including Havelock and Cherry...

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