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Richard Higgins occasionally wants to forget what he has seen. Higgins remembers being on Cape Gloucester hiding behind...

Kenneth Killilea boarded a hospital ship offshore of Iwo Jima after being wounded in action. The largest pieces of...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Samuel Ukrop was not changed a bit by the war. He had no bad dreams of combat although some of his dreams are realistic...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

[Annotator's Note: James Goodrich served in the US Marine Corps as a machine gun section leader in the 27th Marine...

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot with Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in the...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

Melvin C. Whitman and the rest of the artillery [Annotator's Note: Whitman was a member of Battery L, 3rd Battalion,...

Louis R. Lepore did not take part in the practice invasions at Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii] before going to...

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