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Thomas J. Smith, Junior was looking forward to seeing the enemy. The Marines were under the Navy. After training, they...

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

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

Donald F. Goyette spent time on Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. When the Marines were preparing to invade...

Robert G. Aldous did not have nightmares early on. He has reoccurrences of some of the things he went through during...

Jacklyn Lucas returned to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] in 1985. He has been back there three times and...

Alvin von Frisch was sent to Camp Croft [Annotator's Note: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; now Croft State Park] for...

After boot camp, Norman Elliott was assigned to a newly-commissioned ship, the USS Pasadena (CL-65). From the Boston...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

Nick Cristiano was shot down on 15 April 1945. He was in prison for five and a half months [Annotator's Note: he was...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

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