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Harold G. Cowart was born in September 1924 in Statesboro, Georgia. His parents were sharecroppers and he and his 11...

Francis John "Dick" Varone was born in October 1925 in Mechanicville, New York. He was raised there with his two...

Frank Pomroy arrived on Guadalcanal from New Caledonia after being left aboard the troopship George F. Elliot [...

Gerald West didn't think often of the Raiders after the war. In recent years the numerous reunions and meetings West...

George Colburn called for a stretcher. One of the ones who brought the stretcher got hit. They put his friend,...

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

Charles Brooks landed on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] just in time for the attack on the...

Arthur McHardy was born Angus, Scotland in October 1924. He vaguely recalls growing up in Scotland. He was only five [...

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

The battle on Tarawa provided countless opportunities for combat cameramen like Norman Hatch to capture story telling...

When he went into combat for the first time, Steve McMurray said he, like everyone else, was scared. When he came upon...

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

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