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After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

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

In early April [Annotator's Note: April 1943], second lieutenants were asked to volunteer for duty in the Pacific....

James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...

The worst duty for Vernon Micheel was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a Douglas SBD...

Robert Barnett came back to the United States through the Panama Canal on Christmas Day, 1945 to join the Atlantic...

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

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