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Richard Witaker heard about the war ending in Europe and was grateful. More supplies would be coming to the Pacific. In...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Harold C. Cook entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Peter "Pete" Behr [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division]...

Richard Jaccarino and his platoon [Annotator's Note: 2nd Platoon, Company F, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th...

Joe G. Casillas had his baptism of fire right on the escarpment [Annotator's Note: after landing on Okinawa, Japan, 10...

Asked how he got a Japanese flag, Holly Rees said that nearly every enemy soldier carried one folded up on top of the...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

Lieutenant Hagerty was promoted as a liaison officer for the 1st Marine Division and coordinated all of the regiments...

Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

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