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They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

After the battle of Okinawa, Arnold Addison stayed on the island until the war was over. A few weeks after the war's...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

In early August 1945, the 321st Bombardment Squad, 90th bombardment group [Annotator’s Note: 321st Bombardment Squadron...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Robert Riddle was at Okinawa when the atomic bombs were dropped. His crew, on hearing of the surrender, was a little...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

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