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Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they...

James Pringle was born in Sumter, South Carolina in November 1925. Life growing up was rough. He worked in grocery...

Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] did not...

When Morris Semiatin was discharged [Annotator's Note: in February 1946], he wanted to become a photographer, which he...

Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...

Henry Baul believes the military offered a bit more racial respect than his civilian life. While in the Marine Corps,...

Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...

Roy Stewart went by train to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California after enlisting in the US Marine Corps...

David Heath made it ashore [Annotator's Note: Heath landed on Guadlacanal, Solomon Islands with Company C, 1st...

fter occupation in Japan, Elroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment,...

Dale LeBlanc was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up like most every other American boy during the depression....

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

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