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Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

James Wilson landed in Wellington, New Zealand [Annotator's Note: on 11 July 1942] and it was cold and raining. They [...

James Wilson shows the helmet he had on [Annotator's Note: when he was shot while serving with Company G, 2nd Battalion...

[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...

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

James Warren David remembered that the ship was full of people. The beds stacked nine bunks high. He recalled that he...

The first of the three battles that stands out to William Lansford was at Asamana on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11...

Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...

Sterling Cale was assigned to the 1st Marine Division right after Pearl Harbor. He did not have a proper Marine uniform...

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