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Edward Chinnis, Jr. was assigned to a tanker after completing radio school. Prior to that he was assigned to a mine...

John DuBose reached his new ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Bostonian] and was immediately given lifeboat training. He...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

David Heath made it ashore [Annotator's Note: Heath landed on Guadlacanal, Solomon Islands with Company C, 1st...

Bailey was assigned to unloading ships. When he wasn't unloading ships he was walking around. He couldn't stay still....

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

After the war ended, Harry Walker Wellford and his crewmates enjoyed watching movies on the fantail [Annotator's Note:...

William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...

James Gulotta was sent to New Caledonia. New Caledonia was a French possession which was used a staging area for new...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

Russell Gackenbach said that he would be part of the atomic bomb mission again if he was asked to do it. We were at war...

Vaughn Whitworth, like most segregated Marines, was in a Depot Company [Annotator's Note: 19th Depot Company, 7th Field...

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