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[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

Thomas Francis Schicker heard that they changed course four different times [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS General...

When they reached the field hospital, Edmund Durocher was put on a stretcher in the mortar platoon area. At the bottom...

Oscar Culp was born in May 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a young African-American, he saw some of the biases...

The military aide told Hershel Williams to take the envelope and do not open it as it was a court martial offense if it...

After Korea, Walter Bowsher served as the San Diego brig warden. In 1953, he was in charge of the escort section of men...

When James Shelton Scales was promoted to captain and given his own company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese, Earl Conklin said they were "pretty vicious," but conceded that combat makes...

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

James Bowie was part of the invasion of Guam [Annotator’s Note: The Battle of Guam, Mariana Islands; 21 July to 10...

James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...

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