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Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...

Albert Yamamoto had to wait for his United States citizenship to be verified before he could return to home from Japan...

John Singlaub had a specific OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, pre-runner of the Central...

Revisiting the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps, Floyd Fogg said he signed up before he finished high school...

Jack Skaggs joined the Oklahoma National Guard when he was 15 years old. He was in Headquarters Battery, 70th Field...

Doyle “Bill” C. Hilson was born in Bronson, Florida in December 1927. He had five brothers and sisters. His father, an...

David Lamar Mealor was born in March 1923 in Newnan [Annotator’s Note: Newnan, Georgia]. He attended Newnan High School...

After his furlough, James Goodrich was told to report to Camp Pendleton. At the time Goodrich did not know what or...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Pedro Parra where he was when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

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