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Frank Kern served as a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines [Annotator's Note: 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd...

Clayton Hall got to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: New Caledonia, Oceania] and the ship lost a prop [Annotator's Note...

Further into the fighting on Iwo Jima, and while going through a sniper-infested thicket, the call came for an "advance...

The following morning, Leon Williamson was sent to attack two heavy cruisers west of Midway Island [Annotator's Note:...

When the 2nd Marine Division shipped out from New Zealand only the battalion commanders knew the specifics of the...

John Mikus, Jr. was never attacked from the air [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...

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

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

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

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

Harry McKnight learned how to follow orders in boot camp. It helped him in battle. He was in good shape because he was...

Robert Frederick Reed's squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Bombing Squadron 612 (VMB-612)] did training dropping...

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