The nation's first African-American Marines

In this section of the site, you'll find interviews from over sixty interviews conducted with Montford Point veterans.

In reading the transcripts, we hope you'll get a sense of the importance of the role that these men played in both Marine Corps and American history.

In many cases, the veterans interviewed had waited their entire lives to share the Montford Point story-- their Montford Point story--with the world.

• Ash, Fred
• Banker, Al
• Batts, Adner
• Blount, Turner
• Borden, Melvin
• Brown, Calvin
• Caputo, Anthony
• Carpenter, Joseph - Transcripts to be posted
• Coleman, Fannie
• Cork, Thomas - Transcripts to be posted
• Corley, Averet
• Cotman, Orvia
• Cunningham, Ellis - Transcripts to be posted
• Darden, Herman - Transcripts to be posted
• Davenport, Charles
• Diggs, Lawrence
• Dinkins, David
• Doughty, Gene - Transcripts to be posted
• Douglas, Lee
• Drake, Frederick
• Durden, Roland - Transcripts to be posted
• Edwards, Hulon
• Felder, Lorenzo
• Foreman, William
• Frasier, Issac
• Gayton, John
• Givian, Johnnie
• Grayson, Leroy
• Hagan, Paul
• Hamilton, Harry
• Hines, Ruben - Transcripts to be posted
• Holtsclaw, Paul
• Hooper, FM
• Hosea, Nathaniel
• Lumpkin, Oliver
• Mack, Leroy
• Maddox, Walter
• McNair, Henry
• McNair, Reuben - Transcripts to be posted
• Mial, Howard
• Mosley, Archibald - Transcripts to be posted
• Myers, Joseph - Transcripts to be posted
• Nathaniel, Herman
• Patterson, Benjamin
• Payne, Norman
• Perry, Wilmore
• Reavis, Carroll
• Robinson, Steven - Transcripts to be posted
• Taylor, George - Transcripts to be posted
• Thompkins, Jonnie
• Thompson, Walter
• Vann, William
• Walker, Joseph
• Walker, Richard
• Washington, Jonnie
• White, Glenn - Transcripts to be posted
• Wiggins, Andrew - Transcripts to be posted
• Williams, Allen
• Williams, Howard
• Wilson, James
• Vaughn, LaSalle