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After leaving the service, Harold DeForest wanted to go to the Chrysler Institute to study engineering but he had to go...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was on the airstrip on the second day [...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

Bill Toledo saw his first combat on 1 November 1943. He landed on the island of Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Sumner Whitten noticed heavily armed Marines around the runway. At about that time they were warned to be prepared for...

David Hanning believes he was lucky that his service happened during a meaningful and necessary requirement. He...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

Mason Brownell Fitch flew over Kobe [Annotator's Note: Kobe, Japan] on his first mission over Japan [Annotator's Note:...

The prisoners had their own doctors they had to rely on. They had a Japanese doctor assigned to them but he was not 1...

Willie Roy Hebert kept in touch with his brothers while he was in the service [Annotator's Note: with Marine Aviation...

George Joseph Bertucci went to San Diego, California for basic training. After three weeks, he went aboard the USS...

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