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Joseph Mittelsdorf was assigned to the 5th Marine Division. He was in the rear echelon for the Battle of Iwo Jima [...

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

[Annotator’s Note: People in the background talk throughout the segment.] In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax rose through the ranks quickly [Annotator's Note: while assigned to Fort Shafter as an...

[Annotator's Note: The Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs were disbanded on 20 December 1944, which came as a...

Loraine Osborne knew that they had to get the planes out so they could be shipped overseas. The harder they worked, the...

Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...

Francis Higgins recalls the story of how Philippine mahogany wood was secured to build the PT boats. He [Annotator's...

Delano Roosevelt Brister was born in Sieper, Louisiana in 1933. The town was an old logging camp area. Trains were used...

Ernest Jackson feels that his group [Annotator's Note: the African-American Marines at Montford Point Camp in...

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

Fredrick Hollis was born in January 1929 in Detroit, Michigan. The Great Depression started in October 1929 and his...

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