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James Shelton Scales landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saipan, 15 June to 9 July 1944, Saipan, Mariana...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Thomas Edward Pugh was sent to the Marine Recruit Depot for boot camp in San Diego, California. He was woken up early...

Mack has had a good life. He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for thirty five years. He retired in 1981. His...

After the war ended, Charles A. Waller returned to the United States and was given a 30-day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Gerald West was transported from Tulagi to Guadalcanal aboard the USS Colhoun (APD-2). The USS Colhoun was sunk while...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

Recalling his experiences on Cape Gloucester, Joe Clapper said the combat portion was very light. It was the easiest...

After his discharge, Frank Pantuso rode a bus back home to San Antonio [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] where he...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

Henry Bourgeois' first air to air combat was over Bougainville. When the dive bombers went into their dive, the entire...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

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