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Marine Corps boot camp was not bad for Ed Weber. They needed bodies then, so it was not that bad. Today, boot camp is...

John Stiles boarded the USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145). It was a troop ship and it was an interesting experience....

In late summer of 1951 John Reeder returned to the United States. He was immediately sent to Quantico, Virginia for a...

James J. Hill lived through one tough experience. It was the mission that Pappy was shot down [Annotator’s Note: later...

Claude Shannahan got out of the Marine Corps and returned to Mount Clemens, Michigan. His father owned a bar and...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...

On the way to Peleliu, Joe Clapper's transport pulled into Ulithi, where he saw a small carrier with a hole in it big...

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

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

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

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe was there [Annotator's Note: on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu] for two or three months before...

After basic training, James Franklin Young was sent to New River, North Carolina and placed in the Fleet Marine Force....

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