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Wilfred Hanson always admired the Marine Corps, and figured if he had to go to war, he wanted to go with a group of men...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

[Annotator's Note: A person off screen interjects throughout interview.] There were big rainstorms while there [...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe left Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to...

James William Grimes had a discussion with his parents [Annotator's Note: about changing his date of birth on his birth...

James Goodrich landed [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima] on Red Beach 1 with the 2nd Battalion [Annotator's Note: 2nd...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was in Hawaii until 1 December [Annotator's Note: 1 December 1941]. He was then transferred to...

Arthur Killam kept up with some of the guys he served with in the US Navy during the war but never went to any of the...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

It was routine that every morning and every night, Frederick Ellis would go to general quarters. In Leyte Gulf, [...

Frank V. Tarkington was born in March 1916 in Oakland, California. He was orphaned, as his mother died when he was...

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