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After eliminating the remainder of the artillery positions on Ngesebus Island, the 5th Marine Regiment returned to...

Walter Nelson loved the airplane he flew in [Annotators Note: TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers]. It was slow but...

Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Fred Gemmel already in conversation with the interviewer.] Gemmel arrived...

Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

They had to break the monotony. They would see someone get beat and they would laugh about the way he hollered or the...

Lloyd Dendy met people from different parts of the country. They had different accents and different ways of doing...

[Annotator’s Note: A leaf blower can be heard in the background throughout the segment.] In March 1946, Clarence...

When the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: The Japanese surrender was announced 15 August 1945, and officially...

Ray Gene Gresham digresses to mention that while he was at Camp Crowder, Missouri, he was serving in Company C, 2nd...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944] Allen Tillery went to Linda Vista where he boarded the USS Manila Bay...

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