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A day after William Garbo and his machine gun squad successfully ambushed a group of Japanese soldiers in a mountain...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

Giles Bacon was with the Marine Raiders [Annotators Note: 2nd Marine Raider Battalion] for six months. He had enough of...

[Annotator's Note: There is the sound of a lawnmower in the background during this clip.] Harry Bender was born and...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

John Bradley and his mother moved to the United States in 1949 [Annotator's Note: they were liberated 3 February 1945,...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. As a result of the war, his father realized his dream...

Thomas Goss was stationed overseas on Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with his unit [...

Eugene Corson had a few sounds that would make him jump out of bed. It would scare his wife. He was able to adjust...

Thomas Francis Schicker had his 19th birthday at Ulithi. He became friends with Leo Schmidtkin [Annotator's Note:...

Yellin recalls that the Japanese were in the caves. One person described that the Japanese were not on Iwo Jima, but...

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