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James Salerno stayed in San Diego for about four or five months. From there they went to Pearl Harbor where they saw...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was born in Sumner, Mississippi in July 1924. He lived in a rural community with lots of...

Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...

James Salerno cannot remember a lot of things that happened during the war. He does remember that there was a lot of...

Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr., was sent to El Toro [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California] to...

William Hall reached Sand Island in the Midway Atoll with his personal equipment. Midway was a stopping point for Pan-...

William Wayne has two bad memories of Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. The first was going across open land and...

It is important to study and learn about World War 2 as well as World War 1 [Annotator's Note: global war originating...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot with Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in the...

The older guys in the division [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] went home after Peleliu [Annotator's Note:...

Following the battle of Okinawa, Richard Witaker learned more about Japanese strategies and preparations for the Marine...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. witnessed the end of the fighting on Wake Island. It was chaotic. He [Annotator’s Note: then US...

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