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John Nicholas went into the service in September 1943. His half brother George was already in the Navy. Nicholas went...

Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a rifleman and radio operator in Company B, 1st Marine Raider...

William Earl Gast was sent to Camp Shanks [Annotator's Note: in Orangetown, New York] for embarkation. While he waited...

[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

Jacklyn Lucas got a call from the President of the United States, Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

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

Fermer Kellogg learned to swim, survive jumping in a burning pool, handle a rifle and march while training [Annotator's...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

Peter "Pete" Behr [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division]...

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