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John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was working in an office in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania of the United States Steel Corporation...

Kenneth Killilea left the United States and sailed with the 4th Marine Division to Roi-Namur in the Kwajalein Islands...

Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Edward Bale was sent to Philadelphia to the Marine Corps basic officer's course and...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

William Hall reached North Island and was assigned to one of two Marine Corps fighter units being organized. Fighter...

Henry L Baul was born in December 1922 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His family moved to Florida when Baul was young. His...

Joseph L. Harrison was born in March 1923 in Live Oak County in George West, Texas. When he was about five years old,...

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