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On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Ralph C. Franklin attended Columbia University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York] graduate school. He thought...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] had his first combat...

During George Vincent Ross's first night there [Annotator's Note: on Guam, mariana Islands], Marines were killed...

Robert Powers went ashore unopposed at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was in a foxhole with his buddy...

Dave Severance thought they would be sent home once they took the mountain [Annotator's Note: Mount Suribachi on Iwo...

On 1 July 1943, Louis Burg [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942] was ordered to active duty and...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was born in Sumner, Mississippi in July 1924. He lived in a rural community with lots of...

Lester Hecht was having a beer on liberty in Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] when the man next to him,...

George Peto produced some paintings and pieces of propaganda that were based on his unit during battle in the Pacific....

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