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Melvin C. Whitman and the rest of the artillery [Annotator's Note: Whitman was a member of Battery L, 3rd Battalion,...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

As a machine gunner, Arnold Addison said he didn't often see the enemy face to face. He remembers firing tracer rounds...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

William J. Twigger had a cousin his age. His cousin and his brother had joined the Marine Corps early in the war....

After the attack, Robert Powers continued moving south towards the battalion CP [Annotator's Note: command post]. They...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

Harry McKnight arrived at Sugar Loaf Hill [Annotator's Note: a part of the Japanese defensive line known as the Shuri...

After 29 days aboard ship, O’Neil Ducharme landed at Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. Upon...

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