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Wiley was put into a shack and slept the night there. That night he met the Chief of the tribe and was taken to a...

Richard Keller did not get promoted to captain until after they were in combat. They went straight into the jungle to...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in 5th Marine Division] had to be responsible for his 30 camera guys [...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

There was a problem on Midway with producing fresh water. It was solved by evaporators and other techniques that were...

In 1940, David Heath graduated high school and went to work on a farm. Later that year, he joined the Marines [...

Walter Amoss was 17 years of age when the war started. Like his fellow students, he wanted to join the military and go...

Clyde Barnhart was assigned to the 20th Air Force at the Overseas Replacement Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of...

Louis Andriano was born in Long Island City, Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in February 1926....

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