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Robert Addison joined the United States Marine Corps on 7 January 1942. He spent three weeks at Parris Island and then...

William J. Twigger was training on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944]...

Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] watched...

Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotators Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...

Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...

Philip Mayer and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was in high school in 1941 in Ozona [Annotator's Note: Ozona, Texas]. They were shocked [...

Charles Womack remembers the terrain on New Guinea being thick jungles with vines growing wildly throughout and near...

James Pringle arrived at Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] at the end of 1944. He registered, went through...

James Stewart Rosenbaum was born in Chicago, Illinois in August 1925. His father was an insurance and hat salesman. He...

Lloyd Dendy was in the hospital with malaria and did not return to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. He had...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

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