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[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

William McCowen signed on to a crew for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953] and was sent overseas to Kadena...

Vernon Cummings' first battle station [Annotator's Note: aboard USS Indiana (BB-58)] was below deck in the powder room...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

William Stewart was sent to Camp Beale in California [Annotator’s Note: near Marysville, California]. He got his first...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

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