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Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was assigned...

Crump was able to get a gold crown in his teeth and was able to join. This was in late 1943. Crump was told then that...

Robert Hammond was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois in the dead of winter for boot camp. He was prepared for the cold, but...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

Robert Jarvis’ regiment [Annotator’s Note: 534th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, 4th Engineer Special Brigade] used...

Edmund Durocher had been in Headquarters Company but was transferred out ten days before they left New River [Annotator...

Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] was lousy to Louis J. Armentaro because it was hot. He spent a week there...

Theodore Robert Tanner flew six missions in a P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft], but never...

Louis Block knew they were going overseas, but they did not know where. The plane before them went to Guam. When they...

While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...

Otis Arthur Slack took pilot training using the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

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