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While stationed on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] Anna McCalla Noren was thrilled when she...

In Hawaii, Don Daniels was at Camp Tarawa. Before getting there, he was loading ships for Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

Peter Gallo was in the construction division in the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation Corps] before going...

Richard Micklich was born in 1921 in Pueblo, Colorado. He spent the entirety of his childhood in Pueblo as part of a...

For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

Frank Campisano was eager to do his part. He was told he would be put wherever the Marine Corps needed him, which was...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew's first campaign was on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines]. He had turned 21 while on a...

Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...

Clifford Albert Hahn encountered harsh weather conditions on the opposite side of Attu [Annotator's Note: Attu,...

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