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In February 1945, Floyd Fogg was among the Marines of the 23rd Marines, 4th Division [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine...

Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotators Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...

Sumner Whitten arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, west of Honolulu. The mess from the attack on Pearl Harbor was...

Ira Schilling was born in June 1924 in Saratoga, Texas. His parents separated when he was very young and he moved to...

Frank Pryor combated loaded his troopship in Hilo, Hawaii. The fleet came together at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The video starts with a long conversation before the interview actually starts.] Lester Hecht was...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ira Schilling was sent to Camp Elliot, California where he joined Company L...

Frank Pryor was well supplied on Iwo Jima. The SeaBees [Annotator's Note: members of US naval construction battalions]...

Lester Hecht went to boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina. He got in shape. It did not bother him. He was older...

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