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Dale Peterson volunteered for the Navy and was sent for training at the Farragut Naval Training Center in Idaho. He...

Howard Ricks and the 4th Marine Division completed the battle of Roi-Namur in a few days. Many of the casualties were...

Ed Weber reported to Oceanside [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California]....

Robert Judd was born in September 1920 in Oak Park, Illinois. The third of four children, he had twin older brothers...

Martin Jacobson underwent demolition training at Fort Pierce, Florida. He also learned sneak and peek, or surreptitious...

When Ed Weber first got overseas, the war was not going well. In August 1942 when the Marines took Guadalcanal [...

On 13 January 1944, Steve McMurray left on a troop transport ship and was amazed at the clear blue water of the Pacific...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

When Claire Maddox went into the service [Annotator's Note: in the summer of 1943], he had the option to pick any of...

Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...

Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...

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