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Jack Skaggs joined the Oklahoma National Guard when he was 15 years old. He was in Headquarters Battery, 70th Field...

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

Richard Nummer returned to the United States in July 1946 after being in Japan for nine months. While on the trip home...

One time, Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine...

John Reeder was unhappy with the way the reserve officers were being treated; he had overheard his commanding officer...

Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Edgar Harrell suffers from posttraumatic stress from his experience on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), but as a Christian...

Charles Womack remembers that the bunkers and emplacements were often different from one to the next. He came across...

The barracks Charles Womack and the other Marines stayed in when they were on Pavuvu the first time were still there...

Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

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