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James J. Hill took all the Marine courses with no problem [Annotator's Note: during Marine Corps boot camp in late 1941...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Everett Pope...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Charles Gubish was born in February 1919 in Allentown [Annotator's Note: Allentown, Pennsylvania]. He only completed...

Church had different responsibilities on Guam. His first assignment was to handle anything to do with recreation....

The first chance William Lansford and the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion had [Annotator's Note: to fight the Japanese] was...

Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

James J. Hill had Pappy Boyington [Annotator's Note: later US Marine Corps Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington] as his...

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