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Richard T. Russell, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1922. His father was a civil service employee....

Paul Sartori Jr. returned home in January 1946. His father was waiting for him. He needed him to go to work. He was a...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Harper Gruber described the crew as being divided between the dark crew - motor macs [Annotator's Note: motor machinist...

Samuel Hadjinian learned how to drink and smoke through his experience of World War 2. The war helped with his career...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was glad to see the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS...

Peter Dipol recalled that most of the patrols [Annotator's Note: which he went on while serving with the 108th Engineer...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Richard Witaker heard about the war ending in Europe and was grateful. More supplies would be coming to the Pacific. In...

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

There was some rivalry between the Coast Guard and the Navy but they got along fine. There was also a time when a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Edgar Cole if he felt serving in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of...

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