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The Marine Raiders formed from Gerald West's old battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The Raiders were...

Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...

On D plus 2 [Annotator's Note: two days after landing day], they [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th...

Leonard Brooks and the other internees had no idea that they were scheduled to be killed at nine on the morning of 23...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

James Billingsley encountered quite a bit of Japanese resistance going up Highway 17 [Annotator's Note: now Emilio...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum was an all-American boy and he wanted to fight for his country. He enlisted and his parents were...

Being in a hole with Jimmy Grimes when he got shot through the head, and Harrington got his belly split open stands out...

When James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

Willard Ashford [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 134th Naval Construction Battalion in Guam] was preparing to invade...

Melvin Munch stopped at Guam en route to Okinawa. He was concerned about the requirements of going into a war zone. He...

Charles Bruce was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1926. He had two brothers and a sister. He was the oldest. He was...

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