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The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....

Leonard Brooks and his family continued to have bible studies and prayer meetings every day while waiting to find out...

Surrounded by books, the environment of Peter Paret's childhood amplified his aptitude for scholarship and informed his...

Harlan Twible and many others saw the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] as it went down. They were...

There were no jobs when Charles Bruce got out of the service. He got married right away. He met a high school girl and...

The one other combat action Carl Rieman experienced in the Philippines occurred in the Surigao Strait. The whole fleet...

After John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war] recovered and was released from the hospital, he...

Bruno S. Rinas remained in Mariveles [Annotator's Note: Mariveles, Luzon, Philippines] for a day before being marched...

William Garbo first entered a combat zone in an Army DUKW [Annotator's Note: an amphibious truck, referred to as a Duck...

Keith Kiefer was taught about World War 2 in school. The Russians were framed as a stand-offish ally. There was not a...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad,...

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