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William Hall settled down after the war with the Marines but grew angry with the Marine Corps and quit. He did not like...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

George Joseph Sullivan spent six months in a hospital at home after he got back. The diet was one of the bad things. He...

Occasionally, there were some funny things that happened in the prison camp, according to Randall Edwards. The...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

lroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] built...

Henry Joffray was a member of the Merchant Marine during World War 2. There were 4,000 ships and 260,000 sailors in...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

General John Singlaub was born in 1921 in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Range of California. His grandfather...

[Annotator's Note: Allen Tillery served in the USMC as a Japanese language specialist. For the campaign in the Marshall...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

On 7 December 1941, Edmund Aziz and his fiancée were watching a matinee in Detroit, Michigan. When they came out of the...

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