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Leo V. Strausbaugh was boarding a train, on his way overseas, worrying about the fact that his folks would not know...

Harold Ronson experienced one of the most anti-Semitic incidents in his life going into Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note:...

Randolph Daniel feels a review of the past will help educate young people why things turn out the way they do. Everyone...

In April 1940, Jack Holder enlisted in the Navy and completed bootcamp in San Diego, California. Boot camp was...

Alfred Rodrigues wanted to be an engineer in the Navy. He found that the engine room was very hot and he passed out in...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Charles Nathan Lane considers himself extremely fortunate and thinks that he had a guardian angel with him when he was...

Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...

Forrest Villarrubia volunteered for the Marines the day after his high school graduation. His mother would not sign for...

Asked if the war changed him in any way, Cleatus Lebow said it helped him have a little more faith, and mentioned that...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

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