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Fiske Hanley was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas, one of the five children in his family. Although he grew up...

Mark Maynard traveled by train from New London, Connecticut to Mare Island which was a replacement depot for submarine...

Don Daniels was born in Columbia, South Carolina in December 1925. He lived there until he was 14. He then moved to...

Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company were told that the enemy resistance on the island of Tarawa would...

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

John Burr was on watch and he could spot anything on watch at night. He wanted to be on his watch at least five minutes...

[Annotator's Note: George Peto served in the US Marine Corps in a machine gun section in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Burrell received his orders to basic training on 22 December 1942]. Joseph Burrell had his...

Soon after the war ended, Robert “Bob” Bowron was sent overseas to the Pacific. He boarded a ship with 4,000 troops....

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