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Sumner Whitten is proud to have survived the Battle of Midway. A few years ago he was contacted about Battle of Midway...

The 164th [Annotators Note: the US Army’s 164th Infantry Regiment] came ashore as the 1st Raider Battalion was...

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Samuel Tso changed his age to join the Marine Corps. He was 18 years old at the time and could not find a job. He went...

Church was born in Henryville, Utah. After high school he ended up going to Dixie College in St. George. He knew that...

Dave Severance joined the Marine Corps in October 1938 at the age of 19. He was on liberty in Los Angeles when he first...

Bryon Carl Oliver was born in July 1922 in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he played sports including skiing, baseball...

James Roland Westbrook served in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines [Annotator's Note: 24th Marine Regiment], 4th...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Vaughan Whitworth got a couple of weeks to prepare prior to reporting to Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp...

John Mikus, Jr. was in E Company, 26th Marines [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

Flying combat air patrols out of Guam, John Reeder flew missions of two hours duration every day during daylight hours...

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