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Robert E. McGovern's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his father died. He followed the war as a...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

James Billingsley was on patrol one night in Japan. He went into a train station and there was nothing there, but kids...

James Joseph Bollich was born in August 1921 south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

William Roy had served in Battleship Division 5 in the Atlantic on the battleship Arkansas [Annotator's Note: USS...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

Billy Grieves was born in Liberty Center, Ohio. At a young age his parents moved the family to Detroit, Michigan for...

Before the war ended, Louis J. Armentaro's division [Annotator's Note: Armentaro was a member of Company F, 2nd...

Louis R. Lepore received OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] training at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carrel Reavis where he thinks the Montford Point Marines fit into the Civil...

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