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The first time Willie Roy Hebert had ever been on a ship was when he was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...

Charles A. Waller’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was his interaction with General MacArthur [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels entered the service in February 1944.] When he reported on the last day of the month, he...

Richard O'Hara and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion] saw very little action. When...

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

John Mikus, Jr. almost got shot when he got back to the United States. He wanted to call home. The women Marines had...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

Being in a hole with Jimmy Grimes when he got shot through the head, and Harrington got his belly split open stands out...

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

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