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Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it. He...

After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

After gunnery training, Clarence Lee "Jack" Dobbs was sent to a staging area in Lincoln, Nebraska, then to Harvard,...

At 11 years in the Navy, Randall Edwards decided to make a career of the military. In 1946, he had an unfortunate...

During his first night on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

[Annotator’s Note: the interview start is preceded by a brief discussion by Donald Herbert Shown of his five years...

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...

Milton Fernandez was sailed to the Galapagos Islands, near Ecuador. The company was stationed in boxes around the...

Norman Hatch finished his photography training in New York City sometime in April 1942 then returned to Quantico,...

When the flag went up on Mt. Suribachi [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, February 1945], Hershel Williams was too busy in...

[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

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