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Crain watched about the first 10 minutes of the movie "Saving Private Ryan." He is normally able to keep his emotions...

Donald F. Goyette volunteered for Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan] because his plane got shot up, and he...

[Annotators Note: Arthur Killam served in the US Navy as an Electricians Mate aboard the submarine USS Sea Dragon.]...

Charles Womack and every other Marine on the island were fully aware that they were headed for Japan after the fighting...

Mahlen Arledge received his draft notice in July 1943 and went into service the next month. He elected to go into the...

Earnest told the man at the base that he was ordered to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was to report to them in 3 days. Three...

Rufus Harris was born in 1923 in Macon, Georgia. He lived there for four years and then they moved to New Orleans [...

Joe Morris and his unit [Annotator's Note: 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were anchored offshore the morning...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Allen Horton returned to his memory of life on the USS Nevada (BB-36). He said the Nevada had been at Pearl Harbor, and...

Roger A. Lewis left Wallis Island [Annotator's Note: Wallis and Futuna] and returned first to American Samoa, and then...

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