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Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

Frank H. O'Leary took a job as the clothing quartermaster at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

Frank Pantuso's outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division] was assigned to support...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

Calvin Moore was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the Japanese surrendered. They were running bets...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

Robert Frederick Reed was stationed at Kagman Point while on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...

James Goodrich wanted to join the Marine Corps as soon as he saw his first Marine Corps poster. He also enjoyed the...

Arthur Pendleton never claimed his injuries. He does not know if he ever will or if he even wants to. The system is...

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