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David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

After the Battle of the Tenaru [Annotator's Note: also called the Battle of the Ilu River, 21 August 1942, Guadalcanal...

Thomas Goss was sent overseas to New Caledonia with his unit [Annotator’s Note: Marine Air Group 25] as a radio...

William Lansford took part in the Long Patrol with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal. Most of the time he...

James Gulotta was sent to New Caledonia. New Caledonia was a French possession which was used a staging area for new...

Harold Buell was stationed on Guadalcanal where he found life in the field to be far more difficult than it was on his...

David Heath transferred to Guadalcanal, 26 miles from the island of Tulagi [Annotator's Note: both in the Solomon...

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

Clayton Hall got to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: New Caledonia, Oceania] and the ship lost a prop [Annotator's Note...

James Goodrich thinks that people had a greater hatred for the Japanese than the Germans in America. He credits hearing...

[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

Robert Addison joined the United States Marine Corps on 7 January 1942. He spent three weeks at Parris Island and then...

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