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Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Claude Shannahan didn't meet any Paramarines at Bloody Ridge. They got beat up landing on Guadalcanal. The rations on...

J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...

Richard Witaker volunteered for the United States Marine Corps because he was impressed by his friends who had done so...

Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] found that 11th Marine artillery was...

Eugene Tarrant has certain memories from the war that have stuck with him to this day. One night off of Guadalcanal,...

When James Wilson left Australia, they [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

The train was moving fast. The train brought them to California. They brought the companies up to full strength. His...

Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

[Annotator's Note: Segment begins with Sacks and the interviewer discussing the interviewee referring to his notes...

When Gabriel Kinney first went overseas to join the 25th Infantry Division he was assigned to 1st Platoon, Company F,...

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