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

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...

The military aide told Hershel Williams to take the envelope and do not open it as it was a court martial offense if it...

Norman Hatch graduated from high school when he was 17 years old. He grew up in both Boston, Massachusetts and...

During George Vincent Ross's first night there [Annotator's Note: on Guam, mariana Islands], Marines were killed...

James Franklin Young was shipped from Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands] to Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

William Darling was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1925. He always wanted to be in the military. He wanted to go to...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was born in Sumner, Mississippi in July 1924. He lived in a rural community with lots of...

James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...

Harry McKnight learned how to follow orders in boot camp. It helped him in battle. He was in good shape because he was...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] had his first combat...

William Hall reached North Island and was assigned to one of two Marine Corps fighter units being organized. Fighter...

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