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Ray Camp was on Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] when the war ended. He went to work for the post office...

When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...

Claude Bufford Shaw spent his entire wartime service in the Pacific, except for two short trips to the United States to...

[Annotator's Note: You can hear someone off camera throughout this segment.] After his time on Iwo Jima [Annotator's...

Richard Witaker spent six months in China with the 6th Marine Division after the war. He returned to the United States...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1922. His father was a civil service employee....

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...

After the war, Lisle Neher stayed in the Reserves. He ended up with an M Day assignment, or Mobilization assignment, in...

While Richard Bennett was in New Orleans, he met a local in a tavern who offered him and a buddy dinner and lodging for...

Pete Brock's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of the Japanese in 1945 and when his crew...

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