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George Peto and the men of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines had a few days of rest and got new guns then moved out...

Life on the ship was boring. Raymond A. Reed was on 15 different ships in 35 different countries. He was a lucky Seabee...

Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

Thomas Francis Schicker knows there is a lot he has forgotten to tell. They took Kunishi [Annotator's Note: Kunishi...

Joseph Haines wrote home. The letters were censored. He could not say more than he was doing fine. [Annotator's Note:...

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

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

Monroe Scherer was shipped from Saipan to Guam [Annotator's Note: both in the Mariana Islands] for a few days before...

Thomas Lusco Sr. was put on the USS Tucker [Annotator’s Note: USS Henry W. Tucker (DD-875)] in December [Annotator’s...

Following the Battle of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to 22...

George A. Damiano recalled the rainy weather while on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], and that it was hard...

Gil Gertner was born in March 1925 and lived in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. He entered...

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