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Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...

Mahlen Arledge left Peleliu after the battle for the island was won. His company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd...

Sterling Baker was training in the Chesapeake Bay when he learned his unit had gone on leave and he did not get to. He...

Astley Blackwell’s ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] was sunk on 25 October [Annotator's Note: 25...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]Guidone...

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

Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was on USS LST-124 [Annotator's Note: a Landing Ship, Tank] until just before the end of the war...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert G. Aldous if he was religious when he went to war.] He was and then was...

Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell’s most...

Oran Harris remembers that he served with people from all over United States. The Soutern boys didn't like the way the...

Before the 5th Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima, Norman Hatch assigned all of the men in his camera outfit to various...

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