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After boot camp, Robert Powers joined a rifle company at Camp Elliot, then volunteered for a Marine Raider unit. He...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining to Roy Stewart how the interview process works...

Glenn Frazier sailed the Pacific on the USS Cleveland troopship [Annotator's Note: the passenger liner SS President...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts] did...

In Formosa [Annotator's Note: present day Taiwan], Bruno S. Rinas worked in the sugar cane fields. He carried "honey...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

After the invasion of the Kwajalein Atoll [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, 31 January to 3 February...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Homer Myers to tell him about being called out to assist the survivors of the...

Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...

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