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Lloyd Dendy went from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] to Oahu, Hawaii to the old Camp Catlin which...

James Franklin Young was shipped from Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands] to Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island on 23 December 1941 when the Japanese launched their amphibious invasion of the island....

James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...

Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...

Claude Shannahan lives in Harrison Township. He draws a pension from Chrysler but worries how long that will last with...

The Marine Corps did not have any photographic organization prior to 1940 [Annotator's Note: Norman Hatch had joined...

James Goodrich wanted to join the Marine Corps as soon as he saw his first Marine Corps poster. He also enjoyed the...

David Heath found out he was behind Japanese lines. To evade the 800 soldiers, the Marines walked behind them, up a...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

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