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Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...

Benjamin Albert Glusing’s unit [Annotator's Note: 208th Military Police Company] was given secret orders. The orders...

Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine on the SS Dolly Madison. The major missions of the ship were...

[Annotator's Note: John Stiles went to Marine Corps boot camp training in San Diego, California.] They were given...

John R. Elliott was born in July 1919 in Greeley, Colorado. He lived there until he was 13 years old. He went to a one-...

Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

Benjamin Hagans remembers they were in the sea and the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese]...

Romus Burgin and the 5th Marines [Annotator's Note: 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were among the first to...

Adolph Wilson thinks The National WWII Museum is great. It shows appreciation for the veterans who served in the war....

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Martin Carmody took a course that would be parallel to the island. He made a good landing in the ocean but the force of...

Thomas Edward Pugh was born in June 1924 in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in Denton [Annotator's Note: Denton, Texas]. His...

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