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Despite his father's initial objection, William Hall was excited to be activated as a Marine. Hall was sent to San...

Gerald Kynett could run 20 to 25 word a minute using signal. After stopping at Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetok...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

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

Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...

Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in Evansville, Indiana on the Ohio River...

Oran Harris maintains that after having walked for 67 days, 2,000 people from the Bataan Death March were transferred...

The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

As soon as Stanley Stewart arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia, he was back in training. Assigned to the 1st Marine Air...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Returning to his service on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Arthur Lee said he went ashore on Higgins boats...

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