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Sumner Whitten would rent his car out for five dollars per night. Whitten took his graduation leave in New England then...

While overseas, Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little...

Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

Edgar Harrell was born in October 1924 in Cadiz, Kentucky. He was 18 when he joined the United States Marine Corps in...

Richard Nummer entered service in November 1943 at 17 years old. He went to San Diego for boot camp. That was his first...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior went into the service as a green, inexperienced young man. During the war, he travelled...

During World War 1, Archibald Rackerby's mother worked for the Navy as a clerk. Her father worked for the Government...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

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