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Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

Michael Clancey thinks that the Vietnam War should be taught, but with the proper perspective. He hopes the focus will...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Thomas Kolesa to talk about the radar he worked with.] Antiaircraft artillery...

Rob Roy Ratliff joined the Marine Corps and trained with some of the Navajo code talkers. He received a ten day leave [...

Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Rob Roy Ratliff was assigned to the communications section of Headquarters, 5th Marine Division. At the time, the 5th...

Benjamin Carson and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion left San Diego and headed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS J....

Rob Roy Ratliff was discharged from the Marine Corps and then used the G.I. Bill to attend American University in...

Thomas Edward Pugh was born in June 1924 in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in Denton [Annotator's Note: Denton, Texas]. His...

Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...

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