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Mahlen Arledge fought on Peleliu independently of the Marines who were at a stage of moving off the island and turning...

Fiske Hanley II, with his crew [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air...

David Heath found out he was behind Japanese lines. To evade the 800 soldiers, the Marines walked behind them, up a...

Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different. Their...

Hugh Wingo attended boot camp for eight weeks. They got their first liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Being Captured

The LST-700 [Annotator's Note: USS LST-700] eventually made it back to the Philippines. Carey Suratt needed repair...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was a student at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston,...

Richard Tempus Dixon progressed through jobs as a building superintendent, including a time at University of California...

After action in the Marshall Islands [Annotator's Note: Marshall Islands Campaign, 29 January to 22 February 1944,...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Oral History