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Wallace Spencer and two others stole a whaleboat after the war. A wooden one. They were in Bremerton, Washington where...

Thomas Francis Schicker was sent to Mainside Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in...

When Richard Bennett went for his military service physical, he was given his choice between the Army, the Navy and the...

On 27 November [Annotator's Note: 27 November 1941], Robert Kinzler said, Hawaii went on an island-wide alert against...

Rosemarie Weber was born in Saint Paul's Catholic Hospital in the Intramuros, the walled city in Manila, in the...

In Iceland, Keith Renstrom took and passed the test for corporal. When he got back to San Diego, he took the test for...

Joseph Townsend remembers the other port city he went to was Alexandria [Annotator’s Note: Alexandria, Egypt]. There...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

James witnessed one of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll after the war. That is how he realized how the war really...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was with his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

One time, Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine...

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