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Forrest Villarrubia volunteered for the Marines the day after his high school graduation. His mother would not sign for...

When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

Robert Lowe says war has its sadness. So many lost. It is always good to find some humor in a situation. That is what...

Burton "Burt" Johnson had five brothers in the war as well as him. Three were in the Air Corps, two in the Navy, and he...

Samuel Ukrop's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] was not...

Nevin Sledge remembers people were going crazy in Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] after they heard the...

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

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

Roger A. Lewis went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for training. Then they [Annotator'...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was out scouting [Annotator's Note: as part of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment,...

Theodore Marolda returned to the United States via San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. It was...

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

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