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Ira Schilling was born in June 1924 in Saratoga, Texas. His parents separated when he was very young and he moved to...

O’Neil Ducharme’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being assigned to guard duty at Shangri-La, known today...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...

Ed Weber saw a movie with John Payne [Annotator's Note: John Howard Payne, American actor] and Maureen O'Sullivan [...

Gerry Jones completed several missions with his partner, Mack [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity], throughout...

After basic training Richard Greer and the other Marines from his boot camp class went to Norfolk, Virginia where they...

James J. Hill flew the F4F Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft] which was the best, until...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was with his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

Joe Morris returned home after being in Peking, China for some weeks. He boarded an aircraft that flew him to San Diego...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

During the war there are individual units with individuals doing their jobs. On Tinian [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

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