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William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

Morris Semiatin volunteered for the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: in 1944]. His brother was serving in the Army in...

The Japanese were underneath the island [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] while the Marines were on it. James Shelton...

George Vincent Ross used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Kenneth E. Stevens and his outfit were the first Marines to get into the Poway Valley [Annotator's Note: in Poway,...

On their approach, Steve McMurray had heard that the landings on Iwo Jima were not going well. The scenes on the...

Just about every day there was something amazing for Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st...

William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

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