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Dale LeBlanc went to boot camp in San Diego. Marines who went to boot camp in San Diego were referred to as Hollywood...

The ship would reposition at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands]. Occasionally, Japanese planes...

James Bollich thinks there were radios in other camps [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camps], but not his. He got...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the sound does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

Clarence Becker was born in Rochester, New York one week after World War 1 ended, 18 November 1918. He was the fifth of...

Robert D. Shaner was born in February of 1924 in Porterville, California and grew up during the Depression [Annotator's...

Life was rather simple in Honolulu, Hawaii when Ray Emory got there in October 1941. He didn't drink in those days, so...

After cutting himself badly on coral in the Marshall Islands, Ed Weber was put on a hospital ship [Annotator's Note: 31...

While he trained at Fort Slocum in New Rochelle, New York, Armando Galella could go home every weekend. After about a...

John "Jack" Raquepau first saw George Bush [Annotator's Note: George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States]...

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

Selwyn Gilmore was drafted and was given a preference. He just missed being eligible for OCS [Annotator's Note: officer...

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