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In some ways, Ira Schilling felt he grew up very quickly due to his experience serving in the US Marine Corps during...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

Clint Quirk thought the most enjoyable experience was coming into port and getting drunk. Then getting back on the ship...

Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...

Burton "Burt" Johnson went to mortar school [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California...

Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

[Annotator's Note: Horace Trahan serevd in the Navy aboard the USS Briscoe (APA 65) in the Pacific.] They stopped in...

[Annotator's Note: There is white noise throughout this clip.] James L. Lowder was born in Cleveland, Ohio in June 1926...

The Japanese split the camp up again. Myers thinks that after the school teacher had been to the camp he said something...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Years ago Delewski did an interview for National Geographic. He accompanied his commanding officer Captain Becton [...

They [Annotator’s Note: Jacklyn Lucas and his fellow Marines of Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

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