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David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Ed Weber was born in March 1924 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He had one older brother. He moved to Dallas, Texas when he...

Edgar Harrell was floating in the Pacific Ocean with a life jacket while other were not [Annotator's Note: after he...

As the 6th Marines [Annotator's Note: 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] were going in [Annotator's Note: on...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

Gerry Jones recalls that the Japanese would push the Okinawan [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] natives through the...

Clayton Hall got to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: New Caledonia, Oceania] and the ship lost a prop [Annotator's Note...

Ira Schilling and the 6th Marine Regiment travelled from New Zealand to Guadalcanal on a hot and crowded military...

Frank H. O'Leary took a job as the clothing quartermaster at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

James J. Hill took all the Marine courses with no problem [Annotator's Note: during Marine Corps boot camp in late 1941...

Walter Knapps was a Marine Corps security guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

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