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When James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

Charles Stix was born in March 1925. His great-grandfather came to Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] from...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

Jimmie Dyer enlisted to fight in World War 2 because he thought that the country needed to fight. He never questioned...

Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior [Annotator’s Note: a pilot with Marine Night Fighting Squadron 542 (VMF(N)-542)] was...

Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

Daniel J. Lawler went into Peking, China [Annotator's Note: modern day Beijing, China] after Okinawa [Annotator's Note...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

In February or March 1943, Myers Bernard Rosenbloom went to Camp Pendleton[Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

After the war, James Smith had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He got a job before he was even discharged from...

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