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A call went out for volunteers and Battery H, 11th Marine Regiment sent five people to the front to help out. Three of...

[Annotator's Note: There is the sound of a lawnmower in the background during this clip.] Harry Bender was born and...

The discipline in the Marine Corps helped to make Deens life successful. He is glad that he went through it and the...

To Richard Greer the staff NCOs in the weapons company were the heroes. They had a lot of old staff NCOs that they...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the battle of Okinawa, Japan], Harry McKnight was sent back to Guam [Annotator's Note...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Angus Francis Mestayer returned to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. They got a month long leave [...

Not far from Naha [Annotator's Note: Naha, Okinawa, Japan], Melvin C. Whitman got into a 20 plus hour artillery duel....

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

Ralph C. Franklin became an adjutant in Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Marine Division]....

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout the segment.] Rawley R. Hill [Annotator’s...

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