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Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

Rob Roy Ratliff was discharged from the Marine Corps and then used the G.I. Bill to attend American University in...

William J. Twigger saw very little fighting at Sugar Loaf [Annotator's Note: The Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, 12 May to...

Jack Skaggs saw several POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] accidentally killed by the electrical wire surrounding...

They did everything they could do to get off of the beach. One of the warrant officers was hit and told Keith Renstrom...

Arthur Pendleton does not remember who was in the hole with him [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru...

David Heath missed his military friends. He does not think he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However,...

Before joining the Marine Corps, Hilar Moore had never been more than 100 miles from his home [Annotator's Note: in New...

Bill Toledo was sent to code talker [Annotator's Note: person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

Arthur Jackson had been influenced by Marine pilots and wanted to fly. At the recruiting office he took the aviation...

Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...

Leon Williamson grew up in Tecumseh, Michigan. He attended school in the town, then went to Michigan State College [...

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