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Kenneth Killilea received his Marine Corps boot camp training at Parris Island. The moment he stepped off the bus upon...

[Annotator's Note: There is white noise, and the video randomly pauses throughout this clip.] James L. Lowder reported...

Marvin Martin [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 3475th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company] was sent to a...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

Richard Baile feels that it is important to teach young people about World War 2 but feels that teaching young people...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

Robert Addison joined the United States Marine Corps on 7 January 1942. He spent three weeks at Parris Island and then...

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

Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...

When he got out of the military, David Heath used the G.I. Bill. Before the war, he worked in a garage overhauling...

Merrill's roommate was Olie Hansen.After a raid the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CV-6...

Adolph Wilson and his outfit sailed back to Hawaii after Iwo Jima. They were being trained to assault Sasebo, Japan as...

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