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They hurried with thier sandbags and got in their hole. The anti- aircraft guns were used the other day and had to be...

Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...

Robert Perry did his Navy boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. He was then sent to...

Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...

Norman Sterrie participated in the Battle of Coral Sea on 7 and 8 May. [Annotator's Note: 7 and 8 May 1942. Sterrie was...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

Billy Grieves watches movies like Run Silent, Run Deep religiously. He feels that they are more Hollywood than reality...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

The Marine Raiders formed from Gerald West's old battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The Raiders were...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...

As the war was nearing its end, some of William Cart's friends were sent to China but he went up to the Roi fighter...

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