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Forrest Villarrubia and the Marines on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Monitor (LSV-5)] were loaned to General...

On the way to Peleliu, Joe Clapper's transport pulled into Ulithi, where he saw a small carrier with a hole in it big...

Harold Jones [Annotator's Note: after graduating jump school at Fort Benning, Georgia in June 1943] was sent from...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

When Charles Weskey Borders got to New Guinea it had not been secured. The worst time was when he was based at Noemfoor...

William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...

After the war, Harold Hauberg completed junior college in Tucson [Annotator's Note: Tucson, Arizona], earning his...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

Vaughn Whitworth remembers celebrating V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He felt that...

On the 16th [Annotators Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...

Claude Bufford Shaw's ship, the Walke [Annotator's Note: USS Walke (DD-416)], was the lead in the six-ship column. When...

After finishing up in Guam [Annotator's Note: Second Battle of Guam, 21 July to 10 August 1944 at Guam, Mariana Islands...

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