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Charles Gubish did not know much about what was going on with the war in the Pacific. Marine Corps boot camp was tough...

After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

Francis Bucher was on Adak [Annotator's Note: Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska] when the invasion of Kiska [...

Leanne Blinzler Noe was born in June 1933 in San Francisco, California, but grew up in the Philippines. Her parents met...

[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy...

Leo Denault flew from Hawaii to New Guinea. They went over in July 1944. They were on Biak [Annotator’s Note: Biak,...

Yellin recalls that the Japanese were in the caves. One person described that the Japanese were not on Iwo Jima, but...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] shows the footage of "Marines at Tarawa" [...

The B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] appealed to William Smith as an airplane. The...

Ellis Whaley does not remember where he had basic training. He was sent to California for special training. It was a...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

George Colburn went to China with the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: in September 1945]....

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