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When they landed on New Caledonia they were told they were going to march off their sea legs with a thirty mile hike....

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

A month after fighting on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

Lester Hecht's commanding officer's name was John L. Smith [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Colonel John Lucian Smith...

Samuel Ukrop [Annotator's Note: while serving with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division...

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....

At the time of Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. 's enlistment [Annotator's Note: in the United States Marine Corps in December...

After the war ended, Charles A. Waller returned to the United States and was given a 30-day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

James McEnery liked having the Dobermans around. McEnery remembers a shipment of dogs being delivered to them at the...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

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