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After eight weeks of boot camp, James Goodrich was sent to Camp Elliot. Camp Pendleton was not around at that time....

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] wrote about his experiences to Leatherneck...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: serving with Headquarters Company, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division on...

Jack Leaming and his pilot were taken to Yokohama. [Annotator's Note: Leaming was the rear gunner in the Douglas SDB...

Running low on fuel and torpedoes, John Votrobeck [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Blenny (SS-324)] sailed to Subic...

Many men on Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Aldebaran (AF-10)] gambled. The officers tried to...

On 16 April [Annotator's Note: 16 April 1945], the Third Fleet was off the coast of Japan and sent planes out to hit...

Richard Lamey Nesossis was at home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in...

John DuBose heard little current war news while onboard the SS Frenchtown. They did learn shortly after the end of the...

When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

Fred L. Keller, Jr. thought Captain Joseph J. "Jocko" Clark [Annotator's Note: later US Navy Admiral Joseph J. "Jocko"...

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