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O’Neil Ducharme’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being assigned to guard duty at Shangri-La, known today...

On the way to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau], Melvin C. Whitman crossed paths with a Navy ship that...

Mervin Jensen wanted to get back home to civilian life. He was running up the ladder and he was pulling himself along...

Harry McKnight arrived at Sugar Loaf Hill [Annotator's Note: a part of the Japanese defensive line known as the Shuri...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in Headquarters, 52nd...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Ralph C. Franklin went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] before the division [Annotator's...

Norman Hatch joined the 2nd Division [Annotator's Note: 2nd Marine Division]. The 2nd Division did not have any...

Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...

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