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James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...

Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...

Claude Shannahan's worst memories from Guadalcanal were largely from Bloody Ridge. With the Japanese approaching from...

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Kolesa landed on Okinawa, Japan with the Searchlight Battery, 8th Antiaircraft Artillery...

James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

James Wilson did not see the bullets coming when he got shot [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru River,...

Daniel J. Lawler [Annotator's Note: serving with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in...

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

The battle ended on June 21st [Annotators Note: On Okinawa in 1945]. The Sixth Marine Division went on to China. Mack...

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

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