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After one year of study at Iowa State [Annotator's Note: Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa], Robert Erskine Hendrick...

Walter Trauner was born in 1925 in Boonton, New Jersey. His father had a bakery there. In 1929, his father sold the...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Before he could finish his schooling, Philip Schmidt was drafted into the Army. He knew several people that had been...

Frank Kern served as a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines [Annotator's Note: 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd...

Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

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

[Annotator’s Note: Someone is coughing in the background throughout this segment.] Willie D. Knippers was born in Pike...

After action in the Marshall Islands [Annotator's Note: Marshall Islands Campaign, 29 January to 22 February 1944,...

Albert Hatala was born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia. When he was about six months old his father moved to the United...

Robert Rans was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1921. Family life was mostly normal until the war started. He worked...

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