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Richard Greer left Guadalcanal on 5 or 6 January 1943 and went to Melbourne. He was very happy to be leaving the island...

Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...

To Edmund Durocher, New Britain was just as bad as Guadalcanal. They went to New Guinea before they landed on New...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

The first treatment Carroll Harris received was heat lamps on his legs. However, his legs and feet began blistering, so...

Edgar Harrell was floating in the Pacific Ocean with a life jacket while other were not [Annotator's Note: after he...

Charles Womack remembers that the bunkers and emplacements were often different from one to the next. He came across...

When the crew abandoned the USS Perch (SS-176), Robert Lents said some of the guys in the water turned on their...

After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

Louis John Walter had few of the military benefits as a civilian [Annotator's Note: Walter served in the United States...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

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