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[Annotator's Note: A person appears in the background throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus was born in Bridgeville,...

Melvin Munch stopped at Guam en route to Okinawa. He was concerned about the requirements of going into a war zone. He...

Norman Hatch departed Tarawa after the battle concluded and went to Hawaii with the 8th Marine Regiment. The US Army...

Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

Frank Pryor was well supplied on Iwo Jima. The SeaBees [Annotator's Note: members of US naval construction battalions]...

Salvatore Famularo [Annotator's Note: and his fellow Marines in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th...

Earl Dean Browning holds up a book that he put together after he came home from the service [Annotator's Note: in...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

When Oran Harris' ship pulled into port in New Guinea, he walked ashore just to say he had been there. But he saw no...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: after joining Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division on...

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

When their training schedule was complete, James “Jim” R. Boyd and the rest of his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Motor...

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