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Romus Burgin and the men of the 5th Marine Regiment shipped out from Melbourne in September 1943 and were stationed for...

The war made James Roland Westbrook a better person. He had not finished high school, so went home to Mississippi and...

William Roy remembers the fighter planes beginning to malfunction after being at sea for so long. A lot of planes'...

Michael Maziarczyk remembers the Navy starting the bombardment at four in the morning. They made a hospital on the...

Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

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

George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...

George Colburn went to China with the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: in September 1945]....

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