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Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Frank Pantuso was born in November 1925 in San Antonio, Texas. He says his mother and father worked hard to support the...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

In Hawaii, Don Daniels was at Camp Tarawa. Before getting there, he was loading ships for Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo...

When Bill Toledo was home with his grandparents, he did not want to go to school. The school official forced him to go...

After one year of study at Iowa State [Annotator's Note: Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa], Robert Erskine Hendrick...

In 1943, Frank Pantuso reported to the local recruiting station on his 18th birthday and joined the Marine Corps. He...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1 April to 22 June 1945; Okinawa, Japan], Kenneth...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Don Daniels to describe moving across the island during the Battle of Iwo Jima...

Robert Erskine Hendrick [Annotator's Note: a US Marine aboard the USS Idaho (BB-42)] was sent to the Pacific [Annotator...

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