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After listening to Walter Winchell [Annotator's Note: Walter Winchell, American newspaper columnist] on the radio...

John Stiles boarded the USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145). It was a troop ship and it was an interesting experience....

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

Kenneth E. Stevens and his outfit were the first Marines to get into the Poway Valley [Annotator's Note: in Poway,...

Frank Pomroy estimates that the Japanese battleship bombardment [Annotator's Note: on the Marine positions on...

Lester Hecht says there a couple of stories he cannot tell. [Annotator's Note: Hecht laughs.] When his ship pulled into...

William J. Twigger had a cousin his age. His cousin and his brother had joined the Marine Corps early in the war....

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

When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

Norman Hatch received his orders to the 5th Marine Division while he was still in the United States as his...

Leisey was told before he deployed that he was going to go to Officer Candidate School, yet that never developed. He...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

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