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Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

Edward Bale operated the M4 Medium Tank [Annotator's Note: also known as the Sherman] during World War 2 except when he...

Floyd Fogg is a deacon of his church, and he is thankful that God was with him on Iwo Jima, and is with him still. His...

The operation on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu Island, Palau] was supposed to be in conjunction with the offensive...

William Cart returned to the United States in January 1946. If Cart was going to be in a dogfight, he would have...

Charles A. Waller [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241)] returned to his unit...

Walter Bowsher and the other prisoners were forced to work by the Japanese. The POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of...

Angus Francis Mestayer remembers the New Zealanders were not too friendly. They had been fighting in South Africa for...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was on lookout duty with hi-powered binoculars when the first invasion attempt on Wake Island...

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

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